Using Probiotics to Flatten the Curve of Coronavirus Disease COVID-2019 Pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Materno-Fetal and Obstetrics Research Unit, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Clinic of Neonatology, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Food and Nutritional Sciences, St Joseph's Hospital, The University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
⁵ Canadian R&D Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada.

David Baud et al. Front Public Health. 2020.

. 2020 May 8:8:186.

doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.00186. eCollection 2020.

¹ Materno-Fetal and Obstetrics Research Unit, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Clinic of Neonatology, Department Woman-Mother-Child, Lausanne University Hospital, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
³ Food and Nutritional Sciences, St Joseph's Hospital, The University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
⁵ Canadian R&D Centre for Human Microbiome and Probiotics, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada.

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Keywords: COVID 19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; pandemics; prebiotics; probiotics; respiratory infection.

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Probiotics and COVID-19 - Authors' reply.
Mak JWY, Chan FKL, Ng SC. Mak JWY, et al. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Aug;5(8):722-723. doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(20)30197-7. Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020. PMID: 32673605 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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