The neonatal gastrointestinal microbiota: The foundation of future health?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Sim, Kathleen ^a   Powell, Elizabeth ^a   Shaw, Alexander G ^a   McClure, Zoë ^a   Bangham, Madeleine ^a   Kroll, John Simon ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ANAEROBE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

FAECAL TRANSPLANTATION; GASTROINTESTINAL; MICROBIOTA; NEONATAL; PREMATURITY;

GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; METAGENOME;

EID: 84879503071     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2012-302872     Document Type: Review

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