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Probiotics Cut Clostridioides difficile Risk in Antibiotic-Exposed Patients — Small Benefit, Low Certainty
A 2025 Cochrane update finds probiotics may halve the relative risk of C. difficile-associated diarrhea in antibiotic-treated patients (ARR 1.6%, NNT 65) but evidence is low certainty and applicability varies with baseline risk.
