The infant microbiome development: Mom matters

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 109-117

  Mueller, Noel T ^a,b   Bakacs, Elizabeth ^c   Combellick, Joan ^d   Grigoryan, Zoya ^c   Dominguez Bello, Maria G ^c  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SYNBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; VAGINA FLORA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTHER;

FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84922858726     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: 1471499X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2014.12.002     Document Type: Review

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