Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and Maintained Gut Microbiota Diversity

• Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 Protects against Antibiotic-Induced Functional and Compositional Changes in Human Fecal Microbiome

  • 2021-08-17
  • RCT · n = 62
  • Nutrients 13(8)
  • • D. Merenstein
    • C. Fraser
    • R. Roberts
    • Tian Liu
    • Silvia Grant-Beurmann
    • T. Tan
    • K. H. Smith
    • T. Cronin
    • Olivia A Martin
    • M. Sanders
    • S. Lucan
    • M. Kane

  • PubMed: 34444974
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu13082814

  12 Insights on

  • Maintained Gut Microbiota Diversity

  • High evidence

  The magnitude of this change was larger and more sustained in the control group compared to the probiotic group, which is consistent with the hypothesis that BB-12 enhanced microbiota recovery.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small