Antenatal microbiome: Potential contributor to fetal programming and establishment of the microbiome in offspring

Nursing Research

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 306-319

  Wright, Michelle L ^a   Starkweather, Angela R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenatal; Microbiome; Microbiota; Neonate

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MICROBIOTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84941773342     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: 15389847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000101     Document Type: Review

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