Some recent review and research papers on probiotics. Compiled September 2017.

Reviews about probiotics effects on gastrointestinal diseases

Medical doctors’ perceptions on probiotics: Lack of efficacy data hampers innovation – J. Flach – PharmaNutrition – September 2017

Effects of Probiotics on Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Sepsis, Intraventricular Hemorrhage, Mortality, Length of Hospital Stay, and Weight Gain in Very Preterm Infants: A Meta-Analysis – Jin Sun – Advances in Nutrition – September 2017

Probiotics for preventing urinary tract infection in people with neuropathic bladder – Swee-Ling Toh – Cochrane Library of Systemic Reviews – September 2017

Probiotics and antibiotic-associated diarrhea in children: A review and new evidence on Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG during and after antibiotic treatment – Cecilia Mantegazza – Pharmacological Research – August 2017

Probiotics for Gastrointestinal Conditions: A Summary of the Evidence – Thad Wilkins – American Family Physician – August 2017

Probiotics and gastrointestinal conditions: An overview of evidence from the Cochrane Collaboration – Elizabeth A Parker – Nutrition – July 2017

The effect of probiotics as a treatment for constipation in elderly people: A systematic review – Maria Isabel Martínez-Martínez – Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics – July 2017

Gleaning Insights from Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and Probiotic Studies for the Rational Design of Combination Microbial Therapies – Lauren E. Hudson – Clinical Microbiology Reviews – January 2017

Bifidobacteria and Butyrate-Producing Colon Bacteria: Importance and Strategies for Their Stimulation in the Human Gut – Audrey Rivière – Frontiers in Microbiology – June 2016

Effect of probiotics on the composition of the gut microbiome

Probiotics and microbiota composition – Mary Ellen Sanders – BMC Medicine – June 2016

Alterations in fecal microbiota composition by probiotic supplementation in healthy adults: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials – Nadja B. Kristensen  – Genome Medicine – May 2016

Faecal Metaproteomic Analysis Reveals a Personalized and Stable Functional Microbiome and Limited Effects of a Probiotic Intervention in Adults – Carolin A. Kolmeder – PLOS ONE – April 2016

Changes in the Functional Potential of the Gut Microbiome Following Probiotic Supplementation during Helicobacter Pylori Treatment – Bumjo Oh – Helicobacter – March 2016

Functional Dynamics of the Gut Microbiome in Elderly People during Probiotic Consumption – Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh – mBio – April 2015

Reduces Bilophila abundance in IBS patients: Changes of the human gut microbiome induced by a fermented milk product – Patrick Veiga – Scientific Reports – September 2014

Randomised clinical trial: Lactobacillus GG modulates gut microbiome, metabolome and endotoxemia in patients with cirrhosis – J. S. Bajaj – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics – March 2014

Probiotics and vaginal microbiome

Changes in vaginal microbiota following antimicrobial and probiotic therapy –
Jean M. Macklaim – Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease – August 2015

Animal experiments

Oral treatment with Lactobacillus rhamnosus attenuates behavioural deficits and immune changes in chronic social stress – Aadil Bharwani – BMC Medicine – January 2017

Impact of probiotic supplements on microbiome diversity following antibiotic treatment of mice – Hannah Grazul – Gut Microbes – March 2016

Ecological robustness of the gut microbiota in response to ingestion of transient food-borne microbes – Chenhong Zhang – The ISME Journal – March 2016

Metagenomic Analyses of Alcohol Induced Pathogenic Alterations in the Intestinal Microbiome and the Effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Treatment – Lara Bull-Otterson- PLOS ONE – January 2013