Letter to the editor
Quoting a landmark paper on the beneficial effects of probiotics

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  • Clinical use of probiotics in pediatric allergy (CUPPA): A world allergy organization position paper

    2012, World Allergy Organization Journal
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    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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