Saccharomyces boulardii

McFarland LV, Surawicz CM, Greenberg RN, Elmer GW, Moyer KA, Melcher SA, Bowen KE, Cox JL Prevention of P-lactam-associated diarrhea by Saccharomyces boulardii compared with placebo. Am J Gastroenterol 1995 90 439-448. 

Erdeve, O., Tiras, U., and Dallar, Y. The probiotic effect of Saccharomyces boulardii in a pediatric age group, /. Trap. Pediatr., 50, 234, 2004. 

Probiotics may consist of a single strain or a mixture of several strains. Most common are lactic acid bacteria from the Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium genera. Species of bacteria and yeasts used as probiotics include Bifidobacterium bifidum, B. breve, Lactobacillus casei, L. acidophilus, Saccharomyces boulardii, and Bacillus coagulan, among others (Champagne et al., 2005). 

McFarland, L.V., Surawicz, C.M., Greenberg, R.N., Fekety, R., Elmer, G.W., Moyer, K.A., Melcher, S.A., Bowen, K. E., Cox, J.L., Noorani, Z., Harrington, G., Rubin, M., and Green-wald, D. 1994. Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Saccharomyces-Boulardii in Combination with Standard Antibiotics for Clostridium-Difficile Disease. J Am Med Assoc 271(24), 1913-1918. 

Recently, some yeast strains were in vitro tested as candidates for probiotic applications associated with their ability to reduce cholesterol levels (Kourelis and Kotzamanidis 2010). This research, which included strains of Kluyveromyces lactis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Saccharomyces boulardii showed that these yeasts can be considered as prospective probiotic organisms with favorable cholesterol-lowering characteristics. 

McFarland, L.V. 2010. Systematic review and meta-analysis of Saccharomyces boulardii in adult patients. World journal cfgastroenterology WJG, 76(18), 2202-22. 

Gaon, D., Garcia, H., Winter, L. et al. (2003) Effect of Lactobacillus strains and Saccharomyces boulardii on persistent diarrhea in children. Medicina, 63,293-298. 

Mansour-Ghanaei, R, Dehbashi, N., Yazdanparast, K. etal (2003) Efficacy of Saccharomyces boulardii with antibiotics in acute amoebiasis. World J. Gastroenterol, 9,1832-1833. 

Surawicz, C.M., Ehner, G.W., Speelman, P. et al. (1989) Prevention of antibiotic-associated diarrhea by Saccharomyces boulardii a prospective study. Gastroenterology, 96, 981-988. 

T. Vanhoutte, V. De Preter, E. De Brandt, K. Verbeke, J. Swings and G. Huys, Molecular monitoring of the fecal microbiota of healthy human subjects during administration of lactulose and Saccharomyces boulardii, Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 2006, 72, 5990-5997. 

Virtually two representatives of the Saccharomyces genus, S. cerevi-siae and S. boulardii, are utilized in functional food manufacturing processes. Similar to mushrooms, cell walls of S. cerevisiae are sources of... 

Yeasts Saccharomyces S. cerevisiae (S. boulardii), S. pastorianus (S. carlsbergensis)... 

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