Preterm birth and necrotizing enterocolitis alter gut colonization in pigs

Pediatric Research

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 10-16

  Cilieborg, Malene S ^a,b   Boye, Mette ^b   MØlbak, Lars ^b   Thymann, Thomas ^a   Sangild, Per T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; CESAREAN SECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLOSTRUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TERM BIRTH; VACCINE FAILURE; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 78650845174     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181ff2a89     Document Type: Article

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