Cesarean Versus Vaginal Delivery: Long-term Infant Outcomes and the Hygiene Hypothesis

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 321-331

  Neu, Josef ^a,b   Rushing, Jona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hygiene hypothesis; Microbiota; Mode of delivery

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79958019643     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: 15579840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2011.03.008     Document Type: Review

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