Breast-feeding and urinary tract infection.

J Pediatr

Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università di Napoli, Italy.

Published: January 1992

A case-control study was conducted to study the association between breast-feeding and urinary tract infection. Case patients were 128 infants aged birth to 6 months with urinary tract infection. Control infants were 128 infants admitted to the same ward with an acute illness. The results support the hypothesis that breast-feeding protects infants against urinary tract infection.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0022-3476(05)80607-9DOI Listing

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