Bacterial Diversity in Meconium of Preterm Neonates and Evolution of Their Fecal Microbiota during the First Month of Life

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Moles, Laura ^a   Gómez, Marta ^a   Heilig, Hans ^b   Bustos, Gerardo ^c   Fuentes, Susana ^b   de Vos, Willem ^b,d   Fernández, Leónides ^a   Rodríguez, Juan M ^a   Jiménez, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACILLI; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA FERGUSONII; EVOLUTION; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; FIRMICUTES; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MALE; MECONIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; YERSINIA;

BACILLUS; BACTEROIDES; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY PREMATURE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MECONIUM; MICROBIOTA; MOLECULAR TYPING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA FERGUSONII; FIRMICUTES; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; YERSINIA;

EID: 84879514636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066986     Document Type: Article

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