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. 2016 Apr:95:1-2.
doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2016.01.018. Epub 2016 Feb 16.

Stool bacterial load in preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis

Bashir Abdulkadir  1 , Andrew Nelson  1 , Tom Skeath  2 , Emma C L Marrs  3 , John D Perry  3 , Stephen P Cummings  4 , Nicholas D Embleton  2 , Janet E Berrington  2 , Christopher J Stewart  1
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Stool bacterial load in preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis

Bashir Abdulkadir et al. Early Hum Dev. 2016 Apr.

Abstract

Resected gut tissue in necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) has a higher bacterial load than controls. Quantitative PCR was performed on longitudinal NEC and control stool samples (n=72). No significant difference in the total bacterial load was found between samples at diagnosis compared to controls or temporally within NEC.

Keywords: Gut microbiome; Necrotising enterocolitis; Preterm infant; qPCR.

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