Breastfeeding and risk of parasitic infection-a review

Breastfeeding, as exclusive nutrition in the first six months of life, is a necessary nutritional requisite in infants. Except for very few maternal diseases that contraindicate breastfeeding, some of which still controversial, breastfeeding mothers must continue exclusive and sustained lactation to...

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Main Author: Prameela Kannan Kutty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-11-01
Series:Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2221169115300319