scholarly journals Bifidobacterium infantis EVC001 Administration Is Associated With a Significant Reduction In Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis In Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Author(s):  
Joseph Tobias ◽  
Amy Olyaei ◽  
Bryan Laraway ◽  
Brian K. Jordan ◽  
Stephanie L. Dickinson ◽  
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PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-538
Author(s):  
DIANA M. WILLIS ◽  
JOANN CHABOT ◽  
INGEBORG C. RADDE ◽  
GRAHAM W. CHANCE

In recent years necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has become a major problem in neonatal intensive care units. Recent incidences as high as 8% in all infants with a birth weight less than 2.5 kg and 14% in those with a birth weight less than 1.5 kg have been reported from one center.1Despite intensive searches for possible causative factors, no definite entity has been identified, but asphyxia,2 circulatory changes associated with exchange transfusion,3 umbilical vessel catheterization,4 immature immune status,5infection,6-8 and hypertonic feedings9 have all been implicated. In the course of a series of nutritional studies involving thriving very-low-birth-weight infants we


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1652-1661
Author(s):  
Atoosa F. Craighead ◽  
Aaron B. Caughey ◽  
Anoshua Chaudhuri ◽  
Leah Yieh ◽  
Alyssa R. Hersh ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 562-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nehama Linder ◽  
Naama Hammel ◽  
Adriana Hernandez ◽  
Elena Fridman ◽  
Elena Dlugy ◽  
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