Probiotics for preterm infants: Confounding features warrant caution

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Beattie, Lynne M ^a   Hansen, Richard ^b   Barclay, Andrew Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PLACEBO; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; ATOPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTAMINATION; ENTERITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; LETTER; MICROFLORA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBESITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; NEWBORN;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 77956269253     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1949C     Document Type: Letter

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