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Synopsis
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.
Booknews
Eight studies synthesize recent developments in using micro-organisms to reduce problems in the digestive tract, a practice as ancient as fermented milk products but that only began being scientifically studied and applied at the end of the 19th century. After an introduction contributors from around the world review cover intestinal infections, treating antibiotic-associated diarrhoea with living organisms given by the oral route, lactose mal-digestion, the anti-mutagenic and anti-tumor activities of lactic acid bacteria, stimulating immunity, probiotics in cattle, and interventional strategies for using probiotics and competitive exclusion microfloras against contamination with pathogens in pigs and poultry. Presumably complements rather than updates the 1992 . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.