An infectious disease doctor in California is seeing patients who got sick during the Ganges pilgrimage in India.

Necrotising enterolcolitis (NEC) is a common and devastating disease in preterm infants.1 The prevention of NEC has become a high research priority. NEC is precipitated by the exposure of the immature ...

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Despite 60 years of research into necrotising enterocolitis (NEC), our understanding of the disease has not improved enough to achieve better outcomes. Even though NEC has remained the leading cause ...

Intestinal dysbiosis may contribute to the pathogenesis of necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) in very preterm or very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. Dietary supplementation with probiotics to modulate ...

A differential diagnosis was difficult to make, as there were 19 varieties of the disease; infectious enterocolitis had a misdiagnosis rate of 22.9% before admission.

The authors aimed to identify postviral gastroparesis and to characterize clinical and electrogastrographic aspects of the disease and their utility as a diagnostic tool.

The rapid diagnosis and surgical prediction of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remain a challenge because its complex pathogenesis has not been completely elucidated, and no single medical examination ...