Bifidobacterium bacteraemia is rare with routine probiotics use in preterm infants: A further case report with literature review

Acuna-Gonzalez, Antia, Kujawska, Magdalena, Youssif, Mayada, Atkinson, Thomas, Grundy, Sara, Hutchison, Alexandra, Tremlett, Catherine, Clarke, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6203-7632 and Hall, Lindsay J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8938-5709 (2023) Bifidobacterium bacteraemia is rare with routine probiotics use in preterm infants: A further case report with literature review. Anaerobe, 80. ISSN 1075-9964

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Abstract

Prophylactic administration of oral probiotics is associated with significant reductions in the morbidity and mortality of necrotising enterocolitis in preterm infants. We document the first case of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis sub-clinical bacteraemia, in an extremely low birth weight preterm infant, since introduction of routine probiotic treatment at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital 10 years ago. Whole genome comparisons confirmed the isolated strain likely originated from the probiotic product.

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Additional Information: Funding Information: L.J.H. is supported by Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards 100974/C/13/Z and 220876/Z/20/Z ; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Institute Strategic Programme Gut Microbes and Health BB/R012490/1 , and its constituent projects BBS/E/F/000PR10353 and BBS/E/F/000PR10356 . Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
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Date Deposited: 07 Feb 2023 17:30
Last Modified: 21 Feb 2023 18:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91071
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2023.102713

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