A randomized synbiotic trial to prevent sepsis among infants in rural India

Pinaki Panigrahi,Sailajanandan Parida,Nimai C. Nanda,Radhanath Satpathy,Lingaraj Pradhan,Dinesh S. Chandel,Lorena Baccaglini,Arjit Mohapatra,Subhranshu S. Mohapatra,Pravas R. Misra,Rama Chaudhry,Hegang Chen,Judith A. Johnson,J. Glenn Morris,Nigel Paneth,Ira H Gewolb

A randomized synbiotic trial to prevent sepsis among infants in rural India

2017

Pinaki Panigrahi
Sailajanandan Parida
Nimai C. Nanda
Radhanath Satpathy
Lingaraj Pradhan
Dinesh S. Chandel
Lorena Baccaglini
Arjit Mohapatra
Subhranshu S. Mohapatra
Pravas R. Misra
Rama Chaudhry
Hegang Chen
Judith A. Johnson
J. Glenn Morris
Nigel Paneth
Ira H Gewolb

A synbiotic preparation of Lactobacillus plantarum and fructooligosaccharide was found to significantly reduce sepsis and infections of the lower respiratory tract in a trial involving rural Indian newborns.

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Fructooligosaccharide
Synbiotics
Sepsis
Young adult
Respiratory tract
Internal medicine
Microbiology
Lactobacillus plantarum
Medicine
Relative risk
Gestation
Neonatal sepsis
Infant mortality
Respiratory tract infections
Placebo

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