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42 Complementary Medicine MAY / JUNE 2005
maximum therapeutic effects, they must
demonstrate a number of vital attributes,
including gastric-acid and bile-salt
stability; human origin; the ability to
adhere to and temporarily colonise the
intestinal mucosa; antagonism against
pathogenic organisms; and documented
clinical safety.1 What has become shown
in the past few years is that such
attributes are not species specific, but
strain specific. Thus if one strain of
Lactobacillus acidophilus or
Bifidobacterium bifidum has demonstrated
all these attributes, it does not
mean that other strains in the same
species will have these characteristics.
Hence the results of clinical research
conducted on one probiotic strain cannot
accurately be extrapolated to other strains
— even ones within the same species.2
Recommending the right yoghurt
When choosing a yoghurt to use as a
therapeutic tool, check that it contains
bacterial strains that demonstrate the
vital......

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