Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Improved Treatment Efficacy

• New combination therapy of praziquantel and Lactobacillus plantarum for enhancing the treatment of clonorchiasis in mice.

  • 2026-06
  • Food and waterborne parasitology 43
  • • Yeting Ma
    • Xiaocen Wang
    • Xu Zhang
    • Yanhui Yu
    • Zhenzhen Liu
    • Penglin Bao
    • Meng Liu
    • Yuru Wang
    • Xiaodan Yuan
    • Hongyu Wang
    • Pengtao Gong
    • Nan Zhang
    • Xin Li
    • Jianhua Li

  • PubMed: 41969850
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2026.e00333

  6 Insights on

  • Improved Treatment Efficacy

  • Low evidence

  The combination of praziquantel and L. plantarum effectively eliminated almost all the hepatic parasites and further alleviated hepatic and biliary damage, resulting in an additional decrease in the liver fibrosis area to 6.0%.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large