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Intestinal microecology / Martin H. Floch -- Intraluminal defenses / Ailsa Hart and Siew C. Ng -- Barrier function and the immune response / Karen L. Madsen -- Probiotics and the allergic response / Erika Isolauri ... [et al.] -- Quantification and identification of probiotic organisms in humans / Ian M. Carroll, Tamar Ringel-Kulka, and Yehuda Ringel -- Nutrients to nourish the organisms : prebiotics and fiber / Harry J. Flint and Sylvia H. Duncan -- Fermentation and the effects of probiotics on host metabolism / George T. Macfarlane, Sandra Macfarlane, and Katie L. Blackett -- Use of probiotic yogurts in health and disease / Mary Ellen Sanders and Daniel Merenstein -- Single and multiple probiotic organisms in therapy of disease / Pramod Gopal and Gerald Tannock -- Development of cultured dairy probiotic food products / Miguel Frietas -- Use of probiotics and prebiotics in children / Jose M. Saavedra and Anne M. Dattilo -- Neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis / Erika C. Claud and W. Allan Walker -- The role of probiotics in diarrheal diseases / Stefano Guandalini -- Probiotics and their role in antibiotic-associated diarrhea and clostridium difficile infection / Laurel H. Hartwell and Christina M. Surawicz -- Use of probiotics in the treatment and prevention of surgical infections / Nada Rayes, Peter Neuhaus, and Daniel Seehofer -- Allergic diseases / Shira Doron and Sherwood L. Gorbach -- Treatment of ulcerative colitis / Karen Kroeker and Levinus A. Dieleman -- Probiotic treatment in Crohn's disease / Karen Kroeker and Richard N. Fedorak -- Probiotics and pouchitis / Mario Guslandi -- Irritable bowel syndrome / Eamonn M.M. Quigley -- Use of probiotics in the prevention and treatment of radiation enteritis / Giuseppe Famularo ... [et al.] -- Probiotics and helicobacter pylori / Adam S. Kim -- Probiotics in liver disease / Adam S. Kim and Anish Sheth -- Probiotics use in bacterial vaginosis and vulvovaginal candidiasis / Paola Mastromarino, Beatrice Vitali, and Luciana Mosca.

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