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From: Bacterial community structure and functional contributions to emergence of health or necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants

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16S rRNA-based analysis of samples demonstrates a temporal component to healthy development in preterm infants. Samples from a full term breast-fed infant (solid black squares) cluster distinctly from early stages of preterm infant development (up through five weeks of life) along the first principal axis. Additional clusters are detected along the second principal axis (within two weeks of life (orange triangles), between three to five weeks (green circles) along the second axis) denoting a temporal progression (arrows) of the microbial communities towards a stable healthy state represented by the full term breast-fed infant.

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Microbiome

ISSN: 2049-2618

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