Clinical Use of Probiotics in Pediatric Allergy (cuppa): A World Allergy Organization Position Paper

Alessandro Fiocchi1, Wesley Burks2, Sami L. Bahna3, Leonard Bielory4, Robert Boyle5, Renata Rodrigues Cocco6, Sten Dreborg7, Richard E. Goodman8, Mikael Kuitunen9, Tari Haahtela9, Ralf G. Heine10, Gideon Lack11, David A Osborn12, Hugh A. Sampson13, Gerald W. Tannock14, Bee Wah Lee15
1Department of Pediatrics – Division of Allergy - Pediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù – Rome, Vatican City
2Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;
3Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, Section of Allergy and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA;
4Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
5Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
6Division of Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
7Department of Pediatric Allergology, Women's and Children's Health, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden;
8Department of Food Science & Technology University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA;
9Skin and Allergy Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
10Department of Allergy and Immunology, Royal Children's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
11King's College London, Asthma-UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, Department of Paediatric Allergy, St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom;
12Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
13Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
14Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
15 Department of Paediatrics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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