Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5824632 | Clinical Therapeutics | 2016 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The microbiome is increasingly understood to have a significant role in health and disease. However, the microbiome of the preterm infant is unique, with simple microbial communities exposed to a consistent diet in a regulated environment, and development from naive to stable under the influence of the neonatal intensive care unit. This early microbiome encounters a still developing host and thus has the potential to program fundamental pathways with implications for neonatal and later outcomes.
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Authors
Mara E. DO, Erika C. MD,