Series Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Adrianne Bendich
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Section A. Probiotics: The Basics
1 Basics of GI Physiology and Mucosal Immunology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Alessio Fasano and Terez Shea-Donohue
2 What Pediatricians Need to Know about the Analysis
of the Gut Microbiota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Gerald W. Tannock
3 Role of Microflora in Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Salvatore Cucchiara and Marina Aloi
4 Probiotics 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Samuli Rautava and W. Allan Walker
5 Mechanisms of Probiotic Regulation of Host Homeostasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Fang Yan and D. Brent Polk
6 Safety Issues of Probiotic Ingestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
David R. Mack
Section B. Probiotics and Infants
7 Neonatal and Infant Microflora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Josef Neu
8 Probiotics in Infant Dietetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Carlo Agostoni and Filippo Salvini
9 Necrotizing Enterocolitis: The Role of Probiotics in Prevention . . . . . . . . . . 121
Zvi Weizman

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Section C. Probiotics and the Gut
10 Irritable Bowel Syndrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Sonia Michail
11 The Role of Probiotics in the Treatment and Prevention of Infectious
Diarrhea in Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Shafiqul A. Sarker and George J. Fuchs
12 Probiotics in Crohn’s Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Esi S. N. Lamousé-Smith and Athos Bousvaros
13 Probiotics in Ulcerative Colitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Richard N. Fedorak
14 Pouchitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Paolo Gionchetti
15 Probiotics in Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea and Clostridium
difficile Infection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Hania Szajewska
16 Probiotics and the Immunocompromised Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Yuliya Rekhtman and Stuart S. Kaufman
17 Role of Probiotics in the Management of Helicobacter pylori Infection . . . . 231
Philip M. Sherman and Kathene C. Johnson-Henry
Section D. Probiotics Outside the Gut
18 Probiotics in Treatment and/or Prevention of Allergies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
R. Fölster-Holst, B. Offick, E. Proksch, and J. Schrezenmeir
19 The Role of Probiotics in the Treatment and Prevention of Asthma . . . . . . . 269
Michael D. Cabana
20 The Impact of Probiotics on Maternal and Child Health: Clinical Evidence . 283
Kingsley C. Anukam and Gregor Reid
Section E. Probiotics Products
21 Probiotics in Foods and Supplements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Steven J Czinn and Samra Sarigol Blanchard
22 The Application of Prebiotics and Synbiotics in Pediatrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Laure Catherine Roger and Anne Liza McCartney
23 The Future of Probiotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Eamonn MM Quigley
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Section F. Probiotic Future
24 The Quality Control of Probiotics in Food and Dietary Supplements . . . . . . 333
Sheryl H. Berman
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

 

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