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. 1980 Feb;84(1):91–96. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400026565

A comparative study of gram-negative aerobic bacilli in the faeces of babies born in hospital and at home.

A R Feeney, E M Cooke, R Shinebaum
PMCID: PMC2133839  PMID: 6985929

Abstract

Examination of the faeces of 50 babies born at home showed that bottle-fed babies carried significantly more Klebsiella, Proteus and Pseudomonas spp. and antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli than did breast-fed babies. Bottle-fed babies born in hospital had a less mixed faecal flora than bottle-fed babies born at home. The possibility that bacterial contamination of home-prepared feeds may account for these differences requires investigation.

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