Letter to the editorQuoting a landmark paper on the beneficial effects of probiotics
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2012, World Allergy Organization JournalCitation Excerpt :However, a specific stimulus originating from, or the lack of a particular species of, commensal bacteria has not been demonstrated in this setting [60]. Furthermore, these studies have often been misquoted in the review literature [61]. The claim that probiotics work by sustainably altering the intestinal microbiotic niches is not easy to demonstrate from a biological point of view and has not been supported by evidence from human studies.
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