Probiotics for preterm infants – time to end all controversies

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 249-253

  Athalye Jape, Gayatri ^a,b   Patole, Sanjay ^a,b  

^a KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BREAST MILK; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PREMATURITY; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SUPPLEMENTATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FOOD INTOLERANCE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; NEONATAL SEPSIS; PROBIOTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85059956763     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13357     Document Type: Note

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