Advances in microbiology, infectious diseases and public health ;
Volume Designation
volume 10
ISSN of Series
2214-8019 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The newborn. Shaping microbiota during the first 1000 days of life / Marta Selma-Royo [and others] -- Necrotizing enterocolitis and the preterm infant microbiome / Jillian R. Baranowski, Erika C. Claud -- Can postbiotics represent a new strategy for NEC? / Fabio Mosca, Maria Lorella Gianni, Maria Rescigno -- The infant. preventing and treating colic / Flavia Indrio, Vanessa Nadia Dargenio, Paola Giordano, Ruggiero Francavilla -- Targeting food allergy with probiotics / Lorella Paparo [and others] -- Use of probiotics to prevent celiac disease and IBD in pediatrics / Gloria Serena, Alessio Fasano -- The child. Fighting fatty liver diseases with nutritional interventions, probiotics, symbiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) / Valerio Nobili, Antonella Mosca, Tommaso Alterio, Sabrina Cardile, Lorenza Putignani -- Probiotics in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease / Stefano Guandalini, Naire Sansotta -- Acute infectious diarrhea / Andrea Lo Vecchio, Vittoria Buccigrossi, Maria Cristina Fedele, Alfredo Guarino -- Probiotics in functional gastrointestinal disorders / Iva Hojsak -- Clostridium difficile colitis prevention and treatment / Meltem Dinleyici, Yvan Vandenplas.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This book shows the huge impact the gut microbiota has on the gastrointestinal health of humans with a particular focus on children. It also highlights the potential use of probiotic microorganisms to protect or improve children's gastrointestinal health. Humans are not single organisms: We are a multi-organism structure composed of ourselves and our microbiota, living in close symbiosis since birth and even before. The huge impact that the billons of microscopic cells living in our gut have on our gastrointestinal and systemic health cannot be overestimated. The enormous progress that has been made in the past decade in our still very incomplete understanding of the gut microbiota is opening the door to potential applications in human health that were simply unthinkable before. One of the most interesting aspects of this new scientific horizon is the fact that we may identify (or even create in the laboratory) and utilize many of these "friendly bacteria" to protect, or improve our health. Thus, strains of probiotic microorganisms are being identified and studied in a vast array of clinical scenarios. Among the most investigated areas for probiotics is the gastrointestinal health of children. The topics addressed in this book are spanning from the development of the gut microbiota in the fetus and newborn all the way to current and potential applications in disparate conditions such as necrotizing enterocolitis, or infectious, or inflammatory conditions affecting the child"--Publisher's description.