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Author(s) -
Luoto R,
Matomäki J,
Isolauri E,
Lehtonen L
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
acta paediatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2011.02237.x
Subject(s) - medicine , necrotizing enterocolitis , incidence (geometry) , probiotic , enterocolitis , pediatrics , randomized controlled trial , clinical trial , optics , physics , biology , bacteria , genetics
‘Incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis in very‐low‐birth‐weight infants related to the use of Lactobacillus GG’ published in Acta Paediatrica (2010;99:1135–8) Our recent article, examining retrospectively the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in all five university hospital NICUs in Finland in relation to the use of LGG, demonstrated that the incidence of NEC was 4.6% vs. 3.3% vs. 1.8% in the prophylactic LGG group, the no probiotics group and the probiotics ‘on demand’ group, respectively; p = 0.0090, Chi‐Square. This is correctly presented in the result section of the manuscript. Unfortunately in the abstract the latter two groups, i.e. the no probiotics group and the probiotics ‘on demand’ group, were reported in wrong order. We wish this type of error, kindly brought to our attention only recently by colleagues from Australia and Denmark, to be corrected. Further, we find this correction of most importance for the readers paying more attention to the abstracts than to the articles. The conclusion of our paper remains, however, unchanged: more randomized clinical trials of the specific probiotic strains on the prevention of NEC in the premature infants is urgently needed.