Lactobacillus lactis LI-23 and Reduced Pathogenic Bacterial Abundance

• Maternal probiotic supplementation and offspring health: an umbrella review with re-analysis of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

  • 2026-03-26
  • Systematic Review
  • Frontiers in nutrition 13
  • • Wenrui Sun
    • Yu Cao
    • Shumin Li
    • Liping Sun
    • Yuexia Liao

  • PubMed: 41971379
  • DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2026.1764109

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Pathogenic Bacterial Abundance

  • High evidence

  Maternal probiotic supplementation was associated with ... decreased abundance of pathogenic bacteria in breast milk (e.g., SMD = -0.90, 95% CI: -1.49 to -0.31; p = 0.003).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes