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Necrotizing enterocolitis and infection
R E Willoughby1, L K Pickering
1Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Clinics in Perinatology
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
Infections are considered to play an important role in the pathogenesis of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). The evidence for infectious causes of NEC is reexamined, with special attention to the clinical definition and reported outbreaks of NEC. Future areas of study are proposed.