Product Description
Probiotics: A Clinical Guide is one of the first books on the market to present current and evidence-based recommendations for primary care providers and gastroenterologists on the use of probiotics as a way to treat specific diseases and disorders.
Why you will want Probiotics: A Clinical Guide:
- Unique focus on the clinical use of probiotics in a wide variety of diseases
- Comprehensive review of the science behind probiotics and probiotic products
- In-depth review of current literature for specific diseases or disorders
- Recommendations of the use of probiotics is supported by evidence-based clinical trials
- Each chapter includes a table that outlines the exact probiotic organisms and dosages that are the most efficacious.
A glance at what is inside Probiotics: A Clinical Guide:
- Basic Physiology
- Intestinal microecology; stimulating the immune response, nutrients to nourish the organism, role in fermentation and metabolism, and much more…
- Use in Clinical Medicine
- Probiotics in children, adult infectious diarrhea, surgical infections, allergic disease, ulcerative colitis, crohn's disease, liver disease, and more…
Probiotics: A Clinical Guide by Dr. Martin Floch & Dr. Adam Kim is a ground-breaking book that will serve as a valuable reference and clinical guide for gastroenterologists, internists, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
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Contents
Dedication
About the Editors
Contributing Authors
Preface
Introduction
SECTION I: BASIC PHYSIOLOGY
Chapter 1: Intestinal Microecology
Martin H. Floch, MD, MACG, FACP, AGAF
Chapter 2: Intraluminal Defenses
Ailsa Hart, PhD and Siew C. Ng, PhD
Chapter 3: Barrier Function and the Immune Response
Karen L. Madsen, PhD
Chapter 4: Probiotics and the Allergic Response
Erika Isolauri, MD, PhD; Samuli Rautava, MD, PhD Kirsi Laitinen, PhD; and Seppo Salminen, PhD
Chapter 5: Quantification and Identification of Probiotic Organismsin Humans
Ian M. Carroll, PhD; Tamar Ringel-Kulka, MD, MPH; and Yehuda Ringel, MD
Chapter 6: Nutrients to Nourish the Organisms: Prebiotics and Fiber
Harry J. Flint, BSc, PhD and Sylvia H. Duncan, BSc, PhD
Chapter 7: Fermentation and the Effects of Probiotics on Host Metabolism
George T. Macfarlane, BSc, PhD; Sandra Macfarlane, BSc, PhD; and Katie L. Blackett, BSc, PhD
Chapter 8: Use of Probiotic Yogurts in Health and Disease
Mary Ellen Sanders, PhD and Daniel Merenstein, MD
Chapter 9: Single and Multiple Probiotic Organisms in Therapy of Disease
Pramod Gopal, PhD and Gerald W. Tannock, PhD
Chapter 10: Development of Cultured Dairy Probiotic Food Products
Miguel Freitas, PhD
SECTION II: USE IN CLINICAL MEDICINE
Chapter 11: Use of Probiotics and Prebiotics in Children
Jose M. Saavedra, MD, FAAP and Anne M. Dattilo, PhD, RD, CDE
Chapter 12: Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis
Erika C. Claud, MD and W. Allan Walker, MD
Chapter 13: The Role of Probiotics in Diarrheal Diseases
Stefano Guandalini, MD
Chapter 14: Probiotics and Their Role in Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and Clostridium difficile Infection
Laurel H. Hartwell, MD and Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG
Chapter 15: Use of Probiotics in the Treatment and Prevention of Surgical Infections
Nada Rayes, MD; Peter Neuhaus, PhD; and Daniel Seehofer, MD
Chapter 16: Allergic Diseases
Shira Doron, MD and Sherwood L. Gorbach, MD
Chapter 17: Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis
Karen Kroeker, MD, FRCP(C) and Levinus A. Dieleman, MD, PhD
Chapter 18: Probiotic Treatment in Crohn's Disease
Karen Kroeker, MD, FRCP(C) and Richard N. Fedorak, MD, FRCP(C)
Chapter 19: Probiotics and Pouchitis
Mario Guslandi, MD, FACG
Chapter 20: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Eamonn M. M. Quigley, MD, FRCP, FACP, FACG, FRCPI
Chapter 21: Use of Probiotics in the Prevention and Treatment of Radiation Enteritis
Giuseppe Famularo, MD, PhD; Vito Trinchieri, MD Luciana Mosca, PhD; and Giovanni Minisola, MD
Chapter 22: Probiotics and Helicobacter pylori
Adam S. Kim, MD
Chapter 23: Probiotics in Liver Disease
Adam S. Kim, MD and Anish Sheth, MD
Chapter 24: Probiotics Use in Bacterial Vaginosis and Vulvovaginal Candidiasis
Paola Mastromarino, PhD; Beatrice Vitali, PhD and Luciana Mosca, PhD
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