Gut bacteria and necrotizing enterocolitis: cause or effect?

• Autores: Christopher James Stewart, Stephen Paul Cummings
• Localización: Trends in microbiology, ISSN 0966-842X, Vol. 23, Nº. 6, 2015, págs. 332-333
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Development of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is considered to be dependent on the bacterial colonisation of the gut. With little concordance between published data and a recent study failing to detect a common strain in infants with NEC, more questions than answers are arising about our understanding of this complex disease.