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

• Main Authors: Alexander G. Shaw (Author), Emma Cornwell (Author), Kathleen Sim (Author), Hannah Thrower (Author), Hannah Scott (Author), Joseph C. S. Brown (Author), Ronald A. Dixon (Author), J. Simon Kroll (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...