ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2022
A comparison of bacterial colonization between nasogastric and orogastric enteral feeding tubes in infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Gut microbiota alterations in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit extremely preterm infants: a Chinese tertiary center study.Translational pediatrics · 2026Article
- Mechanical Behavior and Surface Properties of Silicone and PVC Gastric Tubes Under Controlled pH Conditions.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Reducing Inadvertent Gastric Tube Removal in NICU: A Quality Improvement Initiative.Indian journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Fighting biofilm: bacteriophages eliminate biofilm formed by multidrug-resistant Enterobacter hormaechei on urological catheters.Medical microbiology and immunology · 2025Article
- The neonate respiratory microbiome.Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) · 2025Review
- Mother's milk microbiota is associated with the developing gut microbial consortia in very-low-birth-weight infants.Cell reports. Medicine · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review of the Oral Microbiome in Preterm Infants.American journal of perinatology · 2024Article
- Linking preterm infant gut microbiota to nasograstric enteral feeding tubes: exploring potential interactions and microbial strain transmission.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Gut microbiota of preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit: a study from a tertiary care center in northern India.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveFeeding tubes harbor microbial contaminants; studies to date have not explored differences between orogastric (OG) and nasogastric (NG) tube biofilms. We sought to extend a previous analysis by comparing bacterial colonization by location (OG v NG) and by evaluating clinical factors that may affect tube bacterial populations. STUDY
designThe pharyngeal segments of 41 infant feeding tubes (14 OG and 27 NG) from 41 infants were analyzed by next generation 16 S rRNA sequencing on the MiSeq platform.
resultsAt the phylum level, Proteobacteria had the highest relative abundance of both OG and NG tubes. At the genus/species level, nine taxa differed significantly between OG and NG tubes. Alpha and beta diversity analyses showed significant differences between OG and NG tubes with relatively little contribution from clinical factors.
conclusionThe route of feeding tube insertion (oral vs nasal) had a greater impact on bacterial colonization than the assessed clinical factors.
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