Editorial: Prevention of allergy by pro- and prebiotics

Expert Review of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-3

  Grüber, Christoph ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ALLERGY; ATOPY; BREAST FEEDING; COMMENSAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ECZEMA; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; SENSITIZATION;

EID: 77649136663     PISSN: 1744666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/1744666X.5.1.1     Document Type: Editorial

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