Clinical evaluation of a new starter formula for infants containing live Bifidobacterium longum BL999 and prebiotics

Nutrition

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-8

  Puccio, Giuseppe ^a   Cajozzo, Cinzia ^a   Meli, Ferdinando ^a   Rochat, Florence ^b   Grathwohl, Dominik ^b   Steenhout, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bifidobacterium longum; Formula; Galacto oligosaccharides fructo oligosaccharides; Infants; Prebiotics; Probiotics; Safety

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; GALACTOSE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BODY HEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SAFETY; WEIGHT GAIN;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BODY HEIGHT; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINES; MALE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; PROBIOTICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; WEIGHT GAIN;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM;

EID: 33845658169     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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