Studies of Breast-feeding and Infections: How Good Is the Evidence?

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 256, Issue 7, 1986, Pages 887-892

  Bauchner, Howard ^a,b   Leventhal, John M ^a   Shapiro, Eugene D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEM; BREAST; BREAST FEEDING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HOSPITALIZATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; INFECTION; OTITIS MEDIA; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BREAST FEEDING; DIARRHEA, INFANTILE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS;

EID: 84944284341     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1986.03380070093026     Document Type: Article

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