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SUBMITTER: James K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6817895 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
James Kieran K Bottacini Francesca F Contreras Jose Ivan Serrano JIS Vigoureux Mariane M Egan Muireann M Motherway Mary O'connell MO Holmes Elaine E van Sinderen Douwe D
Scientific reports 20191028 1
A number of bifidobacterial species are found at a particularly high prevalence and abundance in faecal samples of healthy breastfed infants, a phenomenon that is believed to be, at least partially, due to the ability of bifidobacteria to metabolize Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs). In the current study, we isolated a novel strain of Bifidobacterium kashiwanohense, named APCKJ1, from the faeces of a four-week old breastfed infant, based on the ability of the strain to utilise the HMO component ...[more]