Lactobacillus GG for treatment of acute childhood diarrhoea: An open labelled, randomized controlled trial

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 139, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages 379-385

  Aggarwal, Sunny ^a   Upadhyay, Amit ^a   Shah, Dheeraj ^b   Teotia, Neeraj ^a   Agarwal, Astha ^a   Jaiswal, Vijay ^a  

^a LLRM MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Lactobacillus; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

LACTOBACILLUS CASEI EXTRACT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LIKERT SCALE; LOOSE FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; OSMOLARITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VOMITING; DIARRHEA; INDIA; LACTOBACILLUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS; PROBIOTICS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899843794     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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