Prebiotics
Subtitle: Development and Application
Contributors: Bob Rastall (Editor); Glenn Gibson (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: June 5, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780470023136
First sentence: The human embryo is virtually sterile, but at birth microbial colonisation of the gastrointestinal tract occurs, with the neonate receiving an inoculum from the birth canal (Fuller, 1991; Zetterstrom et al., 1994).