Do prebiotics reduce the number of fever episodes in healthy children in their first year of life: A randomised controlled trial

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1740-1748

  Van Stuijvenberg, Margriet ^a   Eisses, Annemieke M ^a   Grüber, Christoph ^a   Mosca, Fabio ^a   Arslanoglu, Sertac ^a   Chirico, Gaetano ^a   Braegger, Christian P ^a   Riedler, Josef ^a   Boehm, Günther ^a   Sauer, Pieter J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Infants; Infection; Oligosaccharides

Indexed keywords

PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOOD COMPOSITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PLACEBOS; PREBIOTICS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 80054772423     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114511004053     Document Type: Article

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