Probiotics to prevent necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm infants

Danish Medical Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Lambæk, Irina Dobychina ^a   Fonnest, Gert ^a   Gormsen, Magdalena ^a   Brok, Jesper ^a   Greisen, Gorm ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEONATOLOGY; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRESCRIPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84964483987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22451919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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