Birth of the Infant Gut Microbiome: Moms Deliver Twice

The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microbes shortly after birth. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe,Bäckhed et al. (2015) shed new light on the assembly of the infant gut microbiome early in life, and how diet and delivery mode shape this community in a western human population. The infant...

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Published in:Cell host & microbe 2015-05, Vol.17 (5), p.543-544
Main Authors: Frese, Steven A., Mills, David A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Gastrointestinal Microbiome
Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology
Humans
Microbiota
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Summary:The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microbes shortly after birth. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe,Bäckhed et al. (2015) shed new light on the assembly of the infant gut microbiome early in life, and how diet and delivery mode shape this community in a western human population. The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microbes shortly after birth. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Bäckhed et al. shed new light on the assembly of the infant gut microbiome early in life, and how diet and delivery mode shape this community in a western human population.
ISSN:1931-3128
1934-6069
DOI:10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.014