Lactobacillus GG Improves Recovery in Infants with Blood in the Stools and Presumptive Allergic Colitis Compared with Extensively Hydrolyzed Formula Alone

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 397-401

  Baldassarre, Maria Elisabetta ^a   Laforgia, Nicola ^a   Fanelli, Margherita ^a   Laneve, Annamaria ^a   Grosso, Roberto ^b   Lifschitz, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b University of Bari ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALGRANULIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ALLERGIC COLITIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BREAST FEEDING; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSIVELY HYDROLYZED CASEIN FORMULA; FECES ANALYSIS; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLITIS; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; LACTOBACILLUS; LEUKOCYTE L1 ANTIGEN COMPLEX; MILK HYPERSENSITIVITY; OCCULT BLOOD; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 76749157081     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2009.09.012     Document Type: Article

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