1. Effect of feeding on infants' faecal flora.
- Author
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Simhon A, Douglas JR, Drasar BS, and Soothill JF
- Subjects
- Bacteroides isolation & purification, Chromatography, Gas, England, Escherichia coli isolation & purification, Humans, Hypersensitivity, Immediate microbiology, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Nigeria, Staphylococcus isolation & purification, Bottle Feeding, Breast Feeding, Feces microbiology
- Abstract
In newborn English Infants, the predominant faecal bacteria were coliforms and bacteroides, as shown by Gram film, culture, and gas-liquid chromatography, whether they were bottle fed or exclusively breast fed. This contrasted with bifidobacterial predominance in faeces from breast-fed Nigerian infants. Presumably environmental factors other than exclusive breast feeding are also important for establishing the flora. No differences were detected between the flora of infants of atopic and non-atopic controls.
- Published
- 1982