Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Intestinal Colonization (IMAGE)

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Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Intestinal Colonization

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Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) afflicts approximately 10 percent of extremely preterm infants with high fatality. Aberrant intestinal colonization has been suspected to contribute to disease. This visual abstract shows how Ward et al. apply metagenomic approaches to define the microbiota of the preterm infant gut and implicate uropathogenic E. coli as a risk factor for NEC and death.

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Ward and Scholz et al./<i>Cell Reports</i> 2016

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