Acute appendicitis in children is associated with a local expansion of fusobacteria

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 71-78

  Rogers, Matthew B ^b   Brower Sinning, Rachel ^b   Firek, Brian ^b   Zhong, Diana ^a   Morowitz, Michael J ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appendicitis; Fusobacterium; Microbiome.

Indexed keywords

ERTAPENEM; RNA 16S;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSOBACTERIA; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; FUSOBACTERIUM VARIUM; HUMAN; INTESTINE MALROTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECES; GENETICS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FECES; FUSOBACTERIA; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84981203582     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciw208     Document Type: Article

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