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Probiotics Reduce the Prevalence of Oral Candida in the Elderly—a Randomized Controlled Trial

¹ Valio Ltd, R&D, PO Box 30, FIN-00039 Helsinki, Finland;
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital;
³ Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Finland;
⁴ Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, University of Helsinki, Finland;
⁵ STAT-Consulting, Tampere, Finland;
⁶ Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Diseases, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland;
⁷ Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Helsinki, Finland; and
⁸ Foundation for Nutrition Research, Helsinki, Finland

View larger version (19K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. Trial profile during the 16-week study.

View larger version (9K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. Percentage (95% confidence interval) of participants with high yeast counts (104 cfu/mL) in the probiotic (n = 92) and control (n = 100) groups at baseline, in the middle, and at the end of the intervention.