Treating critically ill patients with probiotics: Beneficial or dangerous?

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Published in Gut Pathog on February 27, 2011

Authors

Christoph A Jacobi1, Christian Schulz, Peter Malfertheiner

Author Affiliations

1: Universitätsklinikum Magdeburg, Klinik für Gastroenterologie, Hepatologie und Infektiologie, Leipzigerstr, 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany. peter.malfertheiner@med.ovgu.de.

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