Clinical Microbiology: Open Access

Department of Microbiology, University of Uzima, Kisumu, Kenya

Publications

• Research Article   
  Microbiological Quality of Human Milk: A Research on Pumwani Maternity Hospital Milk Bank
  Author(s): Denis Brutus*
  
  The first hospital to have ever formerly frozen and distributed donor milk was launched in Vienna in the year 1909. Currently, there are more than 500 nonprofit human milk banks operating in around 40 countries run by either charities or hospitals with Kenya being the third country in the sub Saharan Africa to have done so at the Pumwani maternity hospital establishment. The hospital’s human milk bank pasteurizes milk for the mother’s own hospitalized baby (personalized milk) and for donation however before doing so, the milk should be screened for presence of potential pathogenic microbes for instance Staphylococcus aurous and total aerobic flora thanks to specific legislations that regulate the activity of human milk banks. Any sample of milk that is found to test positive for either of the above mentioned microbes is acknowledged unfit for h.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2327-5073.23.12.324

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