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Human milk oligosaccharides: 130 reasons to breast-feed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Janette Brand Miller  and
Patricia McVeagh
Janette Brand Miller
Affiliation:
The Human Nutrition Unit and Department of BiochemistryUniversity of SydneyNSW, Australia
Patricia McVeagh
Affiliation:
The Human Nutrition Unit and Department of BiochemistryUniversity of SydneyNSW, Australia
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 82 , Issue 5 , November 1999 , pp. 333 - 335
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999

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