Six months of exclusive breast feeding: how good is the evidence?

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  British medical journal

• Publication date

  2010-01-13

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1136/bmj.c5955PMID 21233152
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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