Probiotics 2: Applications and Practical Aspects

ISBN-13: 9789401064767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 212 str.

R. Fuller

Opis

This is the second volume on probiotics published by Chapman & Hall. Building on the first volume which covered the scientific basis, this important new volume covers practical aspects and the beneficial and therapeutic effects of positive manipulation of an individual's gut flora. The editor, Roy Fuller has drawn together an impressive international list of contributors, each with direct experience of the positive applications of probiotics. Probiotics 2 provides vital new information for microbiologists, nutritionists and dieticians, food scientists, gastroenterologists and physicians.

Spis treści

Introduction. Probiotics and intestinal infections. Antibiotic associated diarrhoea: treatments by living organisms given by the oral route. Lactose maldigestion. Antimutagenic and antitumor activities of lactic acid bacteria. Stimulation of immunity by probiotics. Effects in cattle. Index.

O autorze

Roy Fuller is a private consultant in intestinal microecology, operating from Reading, UK