In Europe, an increasing number of human milk banks (HMBs) collect donor human milk to
feed preterm infants when their mother's milk is not available or not enough. Moreover …

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected maternal and infant health globally both directly from
infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and indirectly from changes in health care resulting …

Almost a century ago, it was discovered that human milk activates the coagulation system,
but the milk component that triggers coagulation had until now been unidentified. In the …

Objective: Investigation of the origin of a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal
intensive care unit. Design: Retrospective case–control study. Setting: Regional level 3 …

Human milk is the biological norm for newborn nutrition, with breast milk from the mother
being recognized as the best source of nutrition for infant health. When the mother's milk is …

Human milk banks (HMB) are responsible for screening and recruiting milk donors with
surplus milk to their own infant's needs, followed by transporting, heat-treating (pasteurising) …

Human milk (HM) must be accurately fortified for extremely low birth weight (ELBW) preterm
infants with human milk fortifiers (HMFs). Powdered HMF has some limitations in terms of …

Background: Smell is determined by odor-active volatile compounds that bind to specific
olfactory receptors, allowing us to discriminate different smells. Olfactory stimulation may …

Background To search for and collect evidence on human milk fortifier in preterm infants,
and to summarize the latest and best evidence, so as to provide reference for clinical work …

An evidence map is visualized as a starting point for deliberations by trans-disciplinary
stakeholders, including microbiologists with interests in the evidence and its influence on …