Prebiotic and probiotic fortified milk in prevention of morbidities among children: community-based, randomized, double-blind, controlled trial.

Recent reviews suggest common infectious diseases continue to be a major cause of death among preschool children in developing countries. Identification of feasible strategies to combat this disease burden is an important public health need. We evaluated the efficacy of adding prebiotic oligosacchar...

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Main Authors: Sunil Sazawal, Usha Dhingra, Girish Hiremath, Archana Sarkar, Pratibha Dhingra, Arup Dutta, Priti Verma, Venugopal P Menon, Robert E Black
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-08-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2921405?pdf=render