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Effect of various milk feeds on numbers of Escherichia coli and Bifidobacterium in the stools of new-born infants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. H. Hewitt  and
Janet Rigby
J. H. Hewitt
Affiliation:
From the Division of Hospital Infection, Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3 UJ
Janet Rigby
Affiliation:
From the Division of Hospital Infection, Clinical Research Centre, Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3 UJ
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Escherichia coli was found in a similar proportion of stool specimens from infants who were breast-fed and from others fed on three different artificial-milk preparations. When E. coli was present its mean colony count in the stools of breast-fed infants was within the range of the mean counts for infants receiving the artificial-milk feeds.

There was no consistent relation between high counts of bifidobacteria (Lacto-bacillus bifidus) and low counts of E. coli. This suggests that measures aimed at implanting or stimulating the growth of bifidobacteria in the large intestine of artificially fed infants may not greatly influence the E. coli population therein.

The results are discussed in relation to the protection of artificially fed infants from E. coli enteritis.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 77 , Issue 1 , August 1976 , pp. 129 - 139
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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