Bacterial contamination of the lacteal contents of feeding bottles in metropolitan Sao Paulo, Brazil

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-181

  Morais, T B ^a,b   Morais, M B ^b   Sigulem, D M ^b  

^a Food Bromatology/Microbiol Lab

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; COLIFORM BACTERIA; INFANT FEEDING; METROPOLITAN AREA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CHILD; DIARRHEA; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MILK;

BOTTLE FEEDING; BRAZIL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URBAN POPULATION;

BRAZIL, SAO PAULO;

EID: 0031777408     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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