Probiotics and other preventative strategies for necrotising enterocolitis

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-43

  Embleton, Nicholas D ^a   Yates, Rowena ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast milk; Feeding; Guidelines; Infant; Necrotising enterocolitis; Newborn; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ARGININE; GLUTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST MILK; CANDIDA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLOSTRIDIUM; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA; LACTOBACILLUS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NUTRIENT; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII;

AMINO ACIDS, BASIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BREAST FEEDING; DRINKING; ENTERAL NUTRITION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROBIOTICS; WATER;

EID: 37349058942     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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