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Probiotics and Intestinal Infections

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Probiotics 2

Abstract

Various health claims have been associated with putative probiotic micro-organisms in both man and animals and three characteristics have been proposed to be desirable for selecting an effective probiotic (Huis in’t Veld and Havenaar, 1993). They are:

  1. 1.

    promotion of colonization resistance;

  2. 2.

    influencing of metabolic activities related to host health;

  3. 3.

    stimulation of the host immune response.

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