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Comment
. 2015 May 13;17(5):543-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.014.

Birth of the infant gut microbiome: moms deliver twice!

Steven A Frese  1 , David A Mills  2
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Birth of the infant gut microbiome: moms deliver twice!

Steven A Frese et al. Cell Host Microbe. .

Abstract

The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microbes shortly after birth. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe,Bäckhed et al. (2015) shed new light on the assembly of the infant gut microbiome early in life, and how diet and delivery mode shape this community in a western human population.

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  • Dynamics and Stabilization of the Human Gut Microbiome during the First Year of Life.
    Bäckhed F, Roswall J, Peng Y, Feng Q, Jia H, Kovatcheva-Datchary P, Li Y, Xia Y, Xie H, Zhong H, Khan MT, Zhang J, Li J, Xiao L, Al-Aama J, Zhang D, Lee YS, Kotowska D, Colding C, Tremaroli V, Yin Y, Bergman S, Xu X, Madsen L, Kristiansen K, Dahlgren J, Wang J. Bäckhed F, et al. Cell Host Microbe. 2015 May 13;17(5):690-703. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.004. Cell Host Microbe. 2015. PMID: 25974306

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