Probiotics: Are we ready for routine use?

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1071-1072

  Soll, Roger F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTERIC FEEDING; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LACTOBACILLUS; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PROBIOTICS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951807094     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-0643     Document Type: Note

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