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Carriage of Cronobacter sakazakii in the Very Preterm Infant Gut.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 2 Jul 2018
Chandrasekaran Sukantha, Burnham Carey-Ann D, Warner Barbara B, Tarr Phillip I, Wylie Todd N
Abstract excerpt
Background: Cronobacter sakazakii causes severe neonatal infections, but we know little about gut carriage of this pathogen in very low birthweight infants. Methods: We sequenced 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes from 2304 stools from 121 children at St Louis Children's Hospital whose birthweight was ≤1500 g, attempted to isolate C. sakazakii from 157 of these stools, genome-sequenced the recovered isolates, and...
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