Colon microflora in infants fed formula with galacto- and fructo-oligosaccharides: more like breast-fed infants.

J, Knol; P, Scholtens; C, Kafka; J, Steenbakkers; S, Gro; K, Helm; M, Klarczyk; H, Schöpfer; HM, Böckler; J, Wells

doi:10.1097/00005176-200501000-00007

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Colon microflora in infants fed formula with galacto- and fructo-oligosaccharides: more like breast-fed infants.

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Knol J

Scholtens P

Kafka C

Abstract

Objectives The intestinal flora of breast-fed infants is generally dominated by Bifidobacteria. We aimed to investigate whether an infant formula supplemented with galacto-oligosaccharides and fructo-oligosaccharides (GOS/FOS) is able to establish a bifido-dominant microflora, not only in numbers bu...

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