MATERIALS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND/OR PREDICTING NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS IN INFANTS
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Nov 27, 2014
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Jan 16, 2013
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Jan 20, 2012
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The subject invention pertains to materials and methods for diagnosing and/or predicting pathologic infant conditions. A method of the invention comprises obtaining a biological sample from an infant and analyzing the sample to detect at least one protein biomarker of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), wherein a patient is diagnosed with NEC or determined to have a likelihood of developing NEC following detection of the biomarker. In another method of the invention, the likelihood of a patient developing NEC is determined. In certain embodiments, treatment is administered to the patient following diagnosis of NEC or determination that the patient has a likelihood of developing NEC.
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