Molecular identification of coliform bacteria from colicky breastfed infants

Objective: To determine the presence of intestinal coliform bacteria in colicky vs healthy infants. Study design: We isolated coliform strains from faeces and performed quantitative bacterial cultures in 41 colicky and 39 healthy breastfed infants, identified using PCR with species‐specific primers, strain‐specific Automated Ribotyping and the API‐50E kit for Enterobacteriaceae to identify the most frequent strains. Results: Coliform strains...