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SUBMITTER: Yassour M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6091882 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yassour Moran M Jason Eeva E Hogstrom Larson J LJ Arthur Timothy D TD Tripathi Surya S Siljander Heli H Selvenius Jenni J Oikarinen Sami S Hyöty Heikki H Virtanen Suvi M SM Ilonen Jorma J Ferretti Pamela P Pasolli Edoardo E Tett Adrian A Asnicar Francesco F Segata Nicola N Vlamakis Hera H Lander Eric S ES Huttenhower Curtis C Knip Mikael M Xavier Ramnik J RJ
Cell host & microbe 20180701 1
Bacterial community acquisition in the infant gut impacts immune education and disease susceptibility. We compared bacterial strains across and within families in a prospective birth cohort of 44 infants and their mothers, sampled longitudinally in the first months of each child's life. We identified mother-to-child bacterial transmission events and describe the incidence of family-specific antibiotic resistance genes. We observed two inheritance patterns across multiple species, where often the ...[more]