Is society being reshaped on a microbiological and epigenetic level by the way women give birth?

Midwifery

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1149-1151

  Dahlen, Hannah Grace ^a   Downe, Soo ^b   Kennedy, Holly Powell ^c   Foureur, Maralyn ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DELIVERY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FORECASTING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; SOCIOBIOLOGY; TRENDS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PREGNANCY; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 84916941307     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2014.07.007     Document Type: Article

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