A cautionary note on instituting probiotics into routine clinical care for premature infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Garland, Suzanne M ^a,b   Jacobs, Susan E ^a   Tobin, Jacinta M ^b  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ALLERGY; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BREAST MILK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTERIC FEEDING; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; LETTER; LICENSING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SUPPLEMENTATION; SURVIVOR; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; NEWBORN;

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

EID: 77956280218     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1949B     Document Type: Letter

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