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SUBMITTER: Claassen-Weitz S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5864830 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Claassen-Weitz Shantelle S Gardner-Lubbe Sugnet S Nicol Paul P Botha Gerrit G Mounaud Stephanie S Shankar Jyoti J Nierman William C WC Mulder Nicola N Budree Shrish S Zar Heather J HJ Nicol Mark P MP Kaba Mamadou M
Scientific reports 20180322 1
There are limited data on meconium and faecal bacterial profiles from African infants and their mothers. We characterized faecal bacterial communities of infants and mothers participating in a South African birth cohort. Stool and meconium specimens were collected from 90 mothers and 107 infants at birth, and from a subset of 72 and 36 infants at 4-12 and 20-28 weeks of age, respectively. HIV-unexposed infants were primarily exclusively breastfed at 4-12 (49%, 26/53) and 20-28 weeks (62%, 16/26) ...[more]