Role of funding
The funder, de Faire Medical AB (Sweden), manufacturer of the studied probiotic AB001 and provided matching placebo at no cost. Further, the funder provided Karolinska Institutet financial compensation for study-related expenses such as costs for analyses of blood samples and study subject reimbursement. The funder of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report. The corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication.