Impact of lack of breast feeding during neonatal age on the development of clinical signs of pneumonia and hypoxemia in young infants with diarrhea.

Hypoxemia is a grave sequel of pneumonia, and an important predictor of a fatal outcome. Pneumonia in the neonatal period is often associated with lack of breast feeding. However, there is no published report on the impact of the cessation of breast feeding in the neonatal period on the development...

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Main Authors: Mohammod J Chisti, Mohammed A Salam, Jonathan Harvey Smith, Tahmeed Ahmed, Hasan Ashraf, Pradip K Bardhan, Mark A C Pietroni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3185044?pdf=render