Cell Host Microbe. 2015 May 13;17(5):543-4. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.014.
Cell host & microbe
Steven A Frese, David A Mills
PMID: 25974295 PMCID: PMC4452283 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.014
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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