Bacterial and fungal viability in the preterm gut: NEC and sepsis

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Stewart, Christopher James ^a   Nelson, Andrew ^a   Scribbins, David ^a   Marrs, Emma Clare L ^b   Lanyon, Clare ^a   Perry, John David ^b   Embleton, Nicholas D ^c   Cummings, Stephen Peter ^a   Berrington, Janet Elizabeth ^c  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; RNA 16S; RNA 28S;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EXPOSURE; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; SPHINGOMONAS;

MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEONATOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH;

BACTERIA; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FECES; FUNGI; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; METAGENOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPSIS;

EID: 84879501240     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-302119     Document Type: Article

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