Routine probiotics in preterm infants?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Guthmann, Florian ^a   Bührer, Christoph ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLORAN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIFIDUSBACTERIUM INFANTIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LETTER; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

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

EID: 79959837747     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.208710     Document Type: Letter

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