Probiotics for preterm infants?
Infants nursed in special care baby units develop an abnormal pattern of microbial colonisation, which may contribute to disease. Enteric feeding of live microbial supplements (probiotics) may provide benefit to such infants and help to prevent diseases such as neonatal necrotising enterocolitis.
Millar
M
M
Department of Medical Microbiology, Barts and The London NHS Trust, 37 Ashfield Street, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK. michael.millar@bartsandthelondon.nhs.uk
Wilks
M
M
Costeloe
K
K
D004750:Enteral Nutrition / Q000379:methods; D020345:Enterocolitis, Necrotizing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods; D019936:Probiotics / Q000627:therapeutic use*