Effect of a synbiotic on infantile acute gastroenteritis

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 231-236

  Gundogdu, Z ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute gastroenteritis; Prebiotics; Probiotics; Synbiotics

Indexed keywords

INULIN; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; SYNBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS; CHILD; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANTILE ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; THERAPY EFFECT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

EID: 84884172973     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2013.0005     Document Type: Article

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