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. 1972 Jun 10;2(5814):616–619. doi: 10.1136/bmj.2.5814.616

Gastroenteritis with Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Premature Babies

Harry Stein, John Beck, Albert Solomon, Arthur Schmaman
PMCID: PMC1788389  PMID: 5031684

Abstract

Eleven premature babies developed necrotizing enterocolitis in an epidemic of gastroenteritis and salmonella infection. This occurred in one of two premature baby wards over a period of 10 weeks. All affected babies had severe gastroenteritis and six had salmonella infection. No cases of necrotizing enterocolitis occurred in the unaffected ward during the same period. All other possible factors which might have predisposed to necrotizing enterocolitis occurred with equal frequency in both wards.

There seems little doubt that infection was the significant factor in the pathogenesis.

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