Metagenomic Sequencing with Strain-Level Resolution Implicates Uropathogenic E. coli in Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Mortality in Preterm Infants

Cell Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2912-2924

  Ward, Doyle V ^a   Scholz, Matthias ^b   Zolfo, Moreno ^b   Taft, Diana H ^c   Schibler, Kurt R ^c   Tett, Adrian ^b   Segata, Nicola ^b   Morrow, Ardythe L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; MORTALITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; FECES; GENETICS; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NEWBORN; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PUERPERIUM; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOLITIS, NECROTIZING; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTESTINES; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL RATE; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84961219396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.03.015     Document Type: Article

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