About the Authors
- Carole Rougé
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Affiliation INRA UMR 1280, Physiologie des Adaptations Nutritionnelles, Université de Nantes, CRNH, Nantes, IMAD, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
- Marie-José Butel
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Affiliation EA 4065, Ecosystème Intestinal, Probiotiques, Antibiotiques, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Hugues Piloquet
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Affiliations INRA UMR 1280, Physiologie des Adaptations Nutritionnelles, Université de Nantes, CRNH, Nantes, IMAD, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France, INSERM, CIC 0004, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Mère-et-Enfant, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
- Laurent Ferraris
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Affiliation EA 4065, Ecosystème Intestinal, Probiotiques, Antibiotiques, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
- Arnaud Legrand
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Affiliation INSERM, CIC 0004, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Mère-et-Enfant, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
- Michel Vodovar
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Affiliation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Institut de Puériculture, Paris, France
- Marcel Voyer
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Affiliation Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Institut de Puériculture, Paris, France
- Marie-France de la Cochetière
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Affiliation EA 3826, Thérapeutiques Cliniques et Expérimentales des Maladies Infectieuses, Nantes, France
- Dominique Darmaun
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* E-mail: ddarmaun@chu-nantes.fr
Affiliation INRA UMR 1280, Physiologie des Adaptations Nutritionnelles, Université de Nantes, CRNH, Nantes, IMAD, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
- Jean-Christophe Rozé
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Affiliations INRA UMR 1280, Physiologie des Adaptations Nutritionnelles, Université de Nantes, CRNH, Nantes, IMAD, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France, INSERM, CIC 0004, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Mère-et-Enfant, CHU de Nantes, Nantes, France
Competing Interests
1) Carole Rougé was the recipient of a doctoral research fellowship from Nestlé (Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Switzerland), 2) Carole Rougé, Jean-Christophe Rozé, Hugues Piloquet, and Dominique Darmaun have been included along with Nestlé in a patent application for the use of Probiotics in preterm infants, 3) Part of this work was supported by grants from: the Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique (PHRC 2004) from the French Ministry of Health, and the Délégation à la Recherche Clinique (DRC 2004), CHU de Nantes. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policy on sharing data as detailed in the PLOS One guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MJB HP MV MV MFdlC DD JCR. Performed the experiments: CR MJB HP LF AL MV MV MFdlC JCR. Analyzed the data: CR MJB HP LF AL MV MV MFdlC DD JCR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LF AL. Wrote the paper: CR MJB HP MV MV MFdlC DD JCR.