Probiotics and Preterm Infants: A Position Paper by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition and the ESPGHAN Working Group for Probiotics and Prebiotics.

V. D. van den Akker, C.; V. van Goudoever, J.; Shamir, R.; Domellöf, M.; Embleton, N.; Hojsak, I.; Lapillonne, A.; Mihatsch, W.; B. Canani, R.; Bronský, J.; Campoy, C.; Fewtrell, M.; F. Mis, N.; Guarino, A.; Hulst, J.; Indrio, F.; Kolaček, S.; Orel, R.; Vandenplas, Y.; Weizman, Z.; Szajewska, H.

doi:10.1097/MPG.0000000000002655

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Probiotics and Preterm Infants: A Position Paper by the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition and the ESPGHAN Working Group for Probiotics and Prebiotics.

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C. V. D. van den Akker

J. V. van Goudoever

R. Shamir

Abstract

More than 10,000 preterm infants have participated in randomised controlled trials on probiotics worldwide, suggesting that probiotics in general could reduce rates of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), sepsis, and mortality. However, answers to relevant clinical questions as to which strain to use, a...

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Medicine

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