Reduced enterobacterial and increased staphylococcal colonization of the infantile bowel: An effect of hygienic lifestyle?

Pediatric Research

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 96-101

  Adlerberth, Ingegerd ^a   Lindberg, Erika ^a   Åberg, Nils ^b   Hesselmar, Bill ^b   Saalman, Robert ^b   Strannegård, Inga Lisa ^b   Wold, Agnes E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b QUEEN SILVIA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFADROXIL; CEFTIBUTEN; CEFUROXIME; CHLORHEXIDINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN G; TOBRAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CESAREAN SECTION; CLOSTRIDIA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMMENSALISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISINFECTION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; FECES MICROFLORA; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SWEDEN; VAGINAL DELIVERY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PREGNANCY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CESAREAN SECTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINES; LIFE STYLE; MALE; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PREGNANCY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 33644828006     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.pdr.0000191137.12774.b2     Document Type: Article

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