Bifidobacterium breve VPro 52 and Reduced Stx Production

• Probiotic Bifidobacteria Protect Mice from Lethal Infection with Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O157:H7

  • 2004-04
  • Clinical Trial
  • Infection and Immunity 72(4)
  • • T. Asahara
    • K. Shimizu
    • K. Nomoto
    • T. Hamabata
    • A. Ozawa
    • Y. Takeda

  • PubMed: 15039348
  • DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.2240-2247.2004

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Stx Production

  • Low evidence
  • Highly Cited
  • Animal Study

  Moreover, Stx production by STEC cells in the intestine was almost completely inhibited in the B. breve-colonized group.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large