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Dynamics of toxigenic Clostridium perfringens colonisation in a cohort of prematurely born neonatal infants

BACKGROUND: Clostridium perfringens forms part of the human gut microbiota and has been associated with life-threatening necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) in premature infants. Whether specific toxigenic strains are responsible is unknown, as is the extent of diversity of strains in healthy premature...

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Autores principales: Shaw, Alexander G., Cornwell, Emma, Sim, Kathleen, Thrower, Hannah, Scott, Hannah, Brown, Joseph C. S., Dixon, Ronald A., Kroll, J. Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7027286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32070310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-1976-7