Is breast milk collected at home suitable for raw consumption by neonates in Brazilian public neonatal intensive care units?

Journal of Human Lactation

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 418-425

  de Almeida Castanho Rozolen, Claudia Dardes ^a   Goulart, Ana Lucia ^a   Kopelman, Benjamin Israel ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Human milk; Human milk bank; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Microbiological quality; Staphylococcus coagulase negative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; BREAST MILK; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; HOME; HUMAN; INFANT FEEDING; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PASTEURIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MILK, HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33750071990     PISSN: 08903344     EISSN: 15525732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0890334406293362     Document Type: Article

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