Lactobacillus bulgaricus SD-6833 and Reduced Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

• Synbiotics for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia: a probiotics strain-specific network meta-analysis.

  • 2019-10-03
  • Meta-Analysis
  • The Journal of international medical research 47(11)
  • • Qiong-Li Fan
    • Xiu-Mei Yu
    • Quan-Xing Liu
    • Wang Yang
    • Qin Chang
    • Yu-Ping Zhang
    • Yu-Ping Zhang

  • PubMed: 31578896
  • DOI: 10.1177/0300060519876753

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

  • High evidence

  "Bifidobacterium longum + Lactobacillus bulgaricus + Streptococcus thermophiles" was more efficacious than "Ergyphilus" in preventing VAP (odds ratio: 0.15, 95% confidence interval: 0.03–0.94).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes