Response: Commentary: Reducing Viability Bias in Analysis of Gut Microbiota in Preterm Infants at Risk of NEC and Sepsis
Front Cell Infect Microbiol
.
2018 Oct 24:8:374.
doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2018.00374.
eCollection 2018.
Authors
Gregory R Young
1
,
Darren L Smith
1
,
Nicholas D Embleton
2
,
Janet Elizabeth Berrington
2
,
Edward C Schwalbe
1
,
Stephen Paul Cummings
3
,
Christopher J van der Gast
4
,
Clare Lanyon
1
Affiliations
1
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
2
Newcastle Neonatal Service, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
3
School of Science and Engineering, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom.
4
School of Healthcare Science, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom.
PMID:
30406047
PMCID:
PMC6207840
DOI:
10.3389/fcimb.2018.00374
No abstract available
Keywords:
PMA; bias; clinical samples; methods—analytic; microbiota; viability analyses.
Publication types
Comment
MeSH terms
Enterocolitis, Necrotizing*
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Sepsis*