Enterococcus faecium and Reduced Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

• Can Enterococcus faecium prevent NEC in preterm infants?: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

  • 2023-08-11
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,487
  • Medicine 102(32)
  • • Guangguo Men
    • Lili Wang
    • Xudan Lu
    • Gang Wen
    • Qin Lü

  • PubMed: 37565851
  • DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000034787

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis

  • High evidence
  • Infants

  the Enterococcus faecium groups had a significant decline in the incidence of NEC Bell stage II or higher (RR: 0.3138, 95% CI: 0.1983-0.4965; P < .00001; 6 studies, n = 1237)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes