Canine dirofilariosis is a frequent parasitic disease in New-Caledonia. A survey of canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) infection among dogs from the cities of Tontouta, Nandaï and Nouméa, was performed in March 2009 using two antigen test kits; the microwell ELISA test: DiroCHE (Synbiotics Europe) and the Rapid Immuno Migration (RIM) test: WITNESS DIROFILARIA (Synbiotics Europe). Blood samp...

Sepsis is a potentially fatal condition, accounting for over 1 million hospitalizations annually in the United States, with mortality rates as high as 40%. Patients undergoing gastrointestinal (GI) surgery are especially susceptible to sepsis, due to bacterial translocation secondary to surgical trauma and the use of antibiotics. Probiotics and synbiotics, which have been hypothesized to counte...

Common infectious diseases, such as diarrhea, are still the major cause of death in children under 5-years-old, particularly in developing countries. It is known that there is a close relationship between nutrition and immune function. To evaluate the effect of a growing-up milk containing synbiotics on immune function and child growth, we conducted a cluster randomized, multicenter, double-bli...

Abstract Synbiotics synergistically favors beneficial effects of prebiotics and probiotics towards host metabolic health by modulating gut ecosystem. In this study, we sought to examine the ( Schizophyllum commune derived β-(1,3/1,6)-glucan), (concoction made eight different bacterial strains) synbiotics (prebiotics + probiotics) on microbiota its associated functions through 16S rRNA gene sequ...

BACKGROUND There is little or no information available on the impact of funding by the food industry on trial outcomes and methodological quality of synbiotics, probiotics and prebiotics research in infants. The objective of this study was to compare the methodological quality, outcomes of food industry sponsored trials versus non industry sponsored trials, with regards to supplementation of sy...

OBJECTIVE Live probiotic bacteria and dietary prebiotic oligosaccharides (together termed synbiotics) increasingly are being used in infancy, but evidence of long-term safety is lacking. In a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial, we studied the safety and long-term effects of feeding synbiotics to newborn infants. METHODS Between November 2000 and March 2003, pregnant mothers ca...