Subset of E. coli Bacteria Linked to Deadly Disease in Pre-Term Infants
University of Massachusetts Medical School, WorcesterIn a study appearing March 17 in Cell Reports, researchers at UMass Medical School, University of Trento and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital describe an association between necrotizing enterocolitis and a subset of E. coli bacteria, called uropathogenic E. coli, that colonize the infant gut.