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

• Egile Nagusiak: Alexander G. Shaw (Egilea), Emma Cornwell (Egilea), Kathleen Sim (Egilea), Hannah Thrower (Egilea), Hannah Scott (Egilea), Joseph C. S. Brown (Egilea), Ronald A. Dixon (Egilea), J. Simon Kroll (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract 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 pr...