Saccharomyces boulardii and Reduced Disease Incidence

• Strain-Specificity and Disease-Specificity of Probiotic Efficacy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2018-05-07
  • Systematic Review
  • Frontiers in medicine 5
  • • Lynne V McFarland
    • Charlesnika T Evans
    • Ellie J C Goldstein

  • PubMed: 29868585
  • DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2018.00124

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Disease Incidence

  • High evidence
  • Highly Cited

  Significant disease-specific variations in efficacy was demonstrated by L. rhamnosus GG and Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745, as well as other probiotic strains.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No