E. coli — United States
Necrotizing enterocolitis [NEC] is an intestinal disease that afflicts about 1 in 10 extremely premature infants and is fatal in nearly 1/3 of cases. The premature infant gut is believed to react to colonizing bacteria, causing damage to the intestinal walls and severe infection. In a study appearing [17 Mar 2016] in Cell Reports, researchers describe an association between necrotizing enterocolitis and a subset of _E. coli_ bacteria, called uropathogenic _E. coli_, that colonize the infant
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