ArticleMicrobial ecology in health and disease2016
Probiotic lactic acid bacteria - the fledgling cuckoos of the gut?
Article in Microbial ecology in health and disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- The effect of oral synbiotics on the gut microbiota and inflammatory biomarkers in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Nutrition reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Lactose intolerance and probiotics: from pathophysiological mechanisms to clinical applications.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2026Review
- Sex differences in the association between long-term ambient particulate air pollution and the intestinal microbiome composition of children.Environment international · 2025Article
- A Single Plasmid of Nisin-Controlled Bovine and Human Lactoferrin Expressing Elevated Antibacterial Activity of Lactoferrin-Resistant Probiotic Strains.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Host intestinal biomarker identification in a gut leakage model in broilers.Veterinary research · 2019Article
- Inhibition of pathogenic bacterial biofilms on PDMS based implants by L. acidophilus derived biosurfactant.BMC microbiology · 2019Article
- Occurrence and Dynamism of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Distinct Ecological Niches: A Multifaceted Functional Health Perspective.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Review
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
It is tempting to look at bacteria from our human egocentric point of view and label them as either 'good' or 'bad'. However, a microbial society has its own system of government - 'microcracy' - and its own rules of play. Lactic acid bacteria are often referred to as representatives of the good ones, and there is little doubt that those belonging to the normal intestinal flora are beneficial for human health. But we should stop thinking of lactic acid bacteria as always being 'friendly' - they may instead behave like fledgling cuckoos.
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