Therapeutic approaches with immune-modulatory effects such as probiotics and prebiotics adjuvant therapy may be essential to combat against COVID-19 pandemic. The present trial aimed to reveal the efficacy of synbiotic supplementation on clinical and paraclinical outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The current randomized placebo-controlled trial enrolled 78 hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection. Participants were randomly allocated to intervention and control groups that received synbiotic or placebo capsules twice daily for 2 weeks, respectively. The synbiotic capsule contains multi-strain probiotics such as
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.