Probiotics to prevent early-life infection

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 378-379

  Strunk, Tobias ^a,b   Kollmann, Tobias ^c   Patole, Sanjay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; DRUG SAFETY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMATURITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LETTER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEPSIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); INFANT;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFANT; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84925304813     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)70088-5     Document Type: Letter

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