TABLE 1.

Patient Demographics

		Gestational age	Birth weight	Mode of delivery	DoL full feeds	DoL probiotic start	Breast milk fortifier start (DoL)	Key disease	DoL NEC onset	DoL +ve BC	Antibiotics (DoL administered)	Total days Abx administered	Survival to discharge
Patient
	1	24+3	600	Vaginal	11	4	56	Medical NEC	41	-	0,9,38,40,41	23	Yes
	2	25+2	700	Vaginal	14	7	21	-	-	-	0,4,14,26	14	Yes
	3	23+3	520	Vaginal	13	3	17	-	-	-	0,3,18,41,51	23	Yes
	4	23+2	580	Vaginal	10	4	44	Sepsis	-	40	0,40	16	Yes
	5	23+1	520	Vaginal	50	3	NR	Surgical NEC, sepsis	14 (op18)	23	0,7,14,15,18,25,37,40	38	No
	6	23+1	590	Vaginal	21	7	40	-	-	-	0,25,37	41	Yes
	7	23+4	500	Caesarean	15	6	NR	Sepsis	-	7	0,7,15	9	Yes
Mean		23.4	573

Patient demographic data for all 7 patients sampled longitudinally in this study. Averages for continuous variables are expressed as the mean. Abx = antibiotics, BC = Blood culture, DoL = Day of life, +ve = Positive, NEC = Necrotising Enterocolitis, NR = not received, op = operated, dashes used to represent no diagnosed diseases.