How delivery mode and feeding can shape the bacterial community in the infant gut

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Se Jin Song et al. CMAJ. 2013.

. 2013 Mar 19;185(5):373-4.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.130147. Epub 2013 Feb 11.

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.

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Gut microbiota of healthy Canadian infants: profiles by mode of delivery and infant diet at 4 months.
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