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. 2023 Dec 7;12(3):2192-2194.
doi: 10.1002/fsn3.3884. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Clinical trials of probiotics: Current outlook

Haitham Al-Madhagi  1 , Abir Alramo  2
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Clinical trials of probiotics: Current outlook

Haitham Al-Madhagi et al. Food Sci Nutr. .

Abstract

The current investigation provides a summary of the available clinical trials using probiotics as therapeutic worldwide and their fate.

Keywords: FDA; clinical trials; microbiota; probiotics.

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Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

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FIGURE 1
Worldwide distribution of the registered clinical trials concerning probiotics.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Fate of the available probiotics clinical trials and the corresponding phases of the recruiting ones.
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