[Retracted] Preventative and Therapeutic Probiotic Use in Allergic Skin Conditions: Experimental and Clinical Findings

Table 2

The various effects of different probiotic strains, referred to in this paper, in (human) clinical allergic skin conditions such as atopic and nonatopic eczema are shown.

References	Probiotic species	Types of atopic dermatitis	Outcomes
		Atopic (IgE-associated) Eczema
Majamaa and Isolauri [3]	LGG	Food-sensitized eczema	↓
Viljanen et al. [18]	LGG	Atopic eczema/dermatitis syndrome	↓
Rosenfeldt et al. [27]	Lctbs rhamnosus + Lctbs reuteri	Atopic eczema	↓
Sistek et al. [28]	Lctbs rhamnosus + Bfdbm lactis	Eczema, food-sensitized atopy	↓
Kukkonen et al. and Kuitunen et al. [29, 30]	Mix (LGG, Lctbs rhamnosus LC705, Bfdbm breve, and Propionibacterium)	Atopic eczema	↓
Kuitunen et al. [30]	Lctbs + Bfdbm + Propionibacteria	IgE-associated allergy	↓
Abrahamsson et al. [31]	Lctbs reuteri	Atopic eczema	↓
Isolauri et al. [32, 33]	Bfdbm or Lctbs	Food (cow’s milk) allergy	↓
Wickens et al. [34]	Lctbs rhamnosus	IgE-associated eczema	↓
		Nonatopic Eczema
Kalliomäki et al. [4]	LGG	Atopic dermatitis	↓
West et al. [35]	Lctbs casei F19	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Woo et al. [36]	Lctbs sakei	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Weston et al. [37]	Lctbs fermentum	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Hoang et al. [38]	Lctbs rhamnosus	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Hattori et al. [39]	Bfdbm breve	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Wickens et al. [34]	Lctbs rhamnosus, Bfdbm animalis (Bb-12)	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Marschan et al. [40]	Mix (LGG, Lctbs rhamnosus LC705, Bfdbm breve, and Propionibacterium)	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Niers et al. [41]	Bfdbm bifidum, Bfdbm lactis, and Lactococcus lactis	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Kim et al. [42]	Bfdbm bifidum, Bfdbm lactis, and Lctbs acidophilus	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Dotterud et al. [43]	LGG, Lctbs acidophilus, and Bfdbm animalis (Bb-12)	Atopic dermatitis	↓
Böttcher et al. [44]	Lctbs reuteri	Atopic dermatitis (sensitization)	↓
Lodinova-Zadnikova et al. [45]	Escherichia coli	Atopic dermatitis (IgE allergies)	↓
Gerasimov et al. [46]	Lctbs acidophilus and Bfdbm lactis	Atopic dermatitis	↓
		Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
Boyle et al. [47, 48]	LGG	Atopic dermatitis	↔
Kuitunen et al. [30]	Lctbs + Bfdbm + Propionibacteria	Atopic dermatitis	↔
Taylor et al. [49]	LGG or Lctbs acidophilus	Atopic dermatitis	↔
Kopp et al. [50]	LGG	Atopic dermatitis	↔
Grüber et al. [51]	LGG	Atopic dermatitis	↔
Brouwer et al. [52]	Lctbs rhamnosus	Atopic dermatitis	↔
Fölster-Holst et al. [53]	LGG	Atopic dermatitis	↔
Soh et al. [54]	Bfdbm longum + Lctbcs rhamnosus	Eczema and atopic sensitization	↔

Bfdbm: Bifidobacterium; Lctbs: Lactobacillus; LGG: Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG; ↓: decrease in symptoms or positive effect,
↔: no change in symptoms or no effect.