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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Mancino W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6780879 | biostudies-other | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Microorganisms 20190827 9
Bifidobacteria commonly constitute the most abundant group of microorganisms in the healthy infant gut. Their intestinal establishment is believed to be maternally driven, and their acquisition has even been postulated to occur during pregnancy. In the current study, we evaluated bifidobacterial mother-to infant transmission events in a rat model by means of quantitative PCR (qPCR), as well as by Internally Transcribed Spacer (ITS) bifidobacterial profiling. The occurrence of strains supplied by ...[more]