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Beyond Bacteria: A Study of the Enteric Microbial Consortium in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants
8 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants have high morbidity and mortality, frequently due to invasive infections from bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The microbial communities present in the gastrointestinal tracts of preterm infants may serve as a reservoir for invasive organisms and remain poorly characterized. We used deep pyrosequencing to examine the gut-associated microbiome of 11 ELBW infants in the first...
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