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SUBMITTER: Biagi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5491547 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biagi Elena E Quercia Sara S Aceti Arianna A Beghetti Isadora I Rampelli Simone S Turroni Silvia S Faldella Giacomo G Candela Marco M Brigidi Patrizia P Corvaglia Luigi L
Frontiers in microbiology 20170630
The progressive building of the infants' gut microbiota is pivotal for educating their immune system. Human breast milk is among the first sources of microbes for the assembly of the infant's microbiota, but research struggles to give a demonstration for the origin of bacteria in milk. Aiming at contributing to the knowledge on assembly of the mother's milk and infant's microbiome, here we characterized the oral, gut and milk ecosystems in a homogeneous cohort of 36 healthy mother-infants pairs, ...[more]