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Dysbiosis Anticipating Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Premature Infants
23 Oct 2014
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BACKGROUND: Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating inflammatory bowel disease of premature infants speculatively associated with infection. Suspected NEC can be indistinguishable from sepsis, and in established cases an infant may die within hours of diagnosis. Present treatment is supportive. A means of presymptomatic diagnosis is urgently needed. We aimed to identify microbial signatures in the...
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