Bifidobacterium bifidum Rosell-71 and Reduced Infection Frequency

• The Effect of Probiotics on Health in Pregnancy and Infants: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

  • 2025-05-28
  • RCT
  • Nutrients 17(11)
  • • Sylvie Binda
    • Mélanie Chow-Shi-Yée
    • Saly El Salti
    • Noémie Auclair-Ouellet
    • Marie-Laure Oula
    • Thomas Carton
    • Sébastien Leuillet
    • Diego Tomassi
    • Robert Hemmings
    • Isaac-Jacques Kadoch

  • PubMed: 40507094
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17111825

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  • Reduced Infection Frequency

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  There was a significantly lower number of women with one or more infections during the study in the probiotics group (8 vs. 18, p = 0.05) and a trend for a lower number of infections during pregnancy (primary outcome) in the probiotics group (p = 0.07).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes