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ArticleFrontiers in public health2020

Using Probiotics to Flatten the Curve of Coronavirus Disease COVID-2019 Pandemic.

David Baud, Varvara Dimopoulou Agri, Glenn R Gibson, Gregor Reid, Eric Giannoni

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05474144 (A Two-arm, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial Investigating the Efficacy of the Probiotic Dietary Supplement SmartProbio C in the Supportive Supplementation of Patients With a Complicated Course of COVID-19 Infection), which is not on this map. Cited by 110 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT05474144 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

A Two-arm, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial Investigating the Efficacy of the Probiotic Dietary Supplement SmartProbio C in the Supportive Supplementation of Patients With a Complicated Course of COVID-19 Infection

TypeinterventionalSponsorMedi Pharma VisionRan2021 to 2022Enrolled83ConditionsCOVID-19ArmsSmartProbio C, Placebo
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

110 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Impact of Probiotics on the Performance of Endurance Athletes: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  7. Impact of nutrition on long COVID.Sports medicine and health science · 2026
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  14. Co-injection with inactivatedFrontiers in microbiology · 2025
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50 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

David BaudMaterno-Fetal and Obstetrics Research Unit, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Varvara Dimopoulou AgriClinic of Neonatology, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Glenn R GibsonFood and Nutritional Sciences, St Joseph's Hospital, The University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.
Gregor ReidDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Eric GiannoniClinic of Neonatology, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

COVID-19Infection ControlDiarrheaGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansProbioticsRespiratory Tract InfectionsSARS-CoV-2coronavirusCOVID 19pandemicsprebioticsprobioticsrespiratory infectionSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID32574290
PMCPMC7227397

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