Table 1.
Example of a simple search strategy that could be used to identify studies evaluating the efficacy of probiotics to reduce or prevent diarrhea in horses using Medline via PubMed.
| Search | Query | Items found |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | Horse or horses or pony or ponies or donkey or donkey or equine | 98,264 |
| #2 | Probiotic or probiotics or yeast or lactobacillus or “lactic acid bacteria” or bifidobacteria or Saccharomyces or “Bacillus subtilis” | 367,665 |
| #3 | Diarrhea or enteric or gastrointestinal or GI or scours | 532,459 |
| #4 | #1 and #2 and #3 | 60 |