Maternal breast-milk and intestinal bifidobacteria guide the compositional development of the Bifidobacterium microbiota in infants at risk of allergic disease

Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1764-1772

  Gronlund M M ^a,b   Gueimonde, M ^b   Laitinen, K ^b   Kociubinski, G ^b   Gronroos T ^b   Salminen, S ^b   Isolauri, E ^a,b  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Allergy; Bifidobacteria; Breast milk; Colonization; Infant; Intestine; Microbiota; Normal microbiota; Transfer

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM ADOLESCENTIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM BIFIDUM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM LONGUM; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM;

BIFIDOBACTERIALES INFECTIONS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINES; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 36348987668     PISSN: 09547894     EISSN: 13652222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02849.x     Document Type: Article

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