Abstract
12 hospital-born babies had necrotising enterocolitis, of varying severity, within six weeks, 5 of them within ten days. The usually described predisposing causes were absent in most, though no baby was exclusively breast -fed. Evidence of the presence of Clostridium butyricum was found in the blood of 9 out of 10 babies examined. Cl. butyricum is probably a primary, not a secondary invader.
MeSH terms
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Clostridium / isolation & purification
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Clostridium Infections / epidemiology*
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Clostridium Infections / microbiology
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Cross Infection / epidemiology*
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Cross Infection / microbiology
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Disease Outbreaks*
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Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / epidemiology*
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Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous / microbiology
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Feces / microbiology
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Female
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Humans
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Infant, Newborn
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Infant, Newborn, Diseases / epidemiology*
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Infant, Newborn, Diseases / microbiology
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London
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Male
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Necrosis
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Sepsis / microbiology