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

Birth of the infant gut microbiome: moms deliver twice!.

Cell host & microbe

Steven A Frese, David A Mills

Affiliations

  1. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis and the Foods For Health Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
  2. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis and the Foods For Health Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 25974295 PMCID: PMC4452283 DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2015.04.014

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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