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Disruption of the microbiota across multiple body sites in critically ill children
1 Dec 2016
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Despite intense interest in the links between the microbiome and human health, little has been written about dysbiosis among ICU patients. We characterized microbial diversity in samples from 37 children in a pediatric ICU (PICU). Standard measures of alpha and beta diversity were calculated, and results were compared with data from adult and pediatric reference datasets. RESULTS: Bacterial 16S rRNA...
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