First-Pass Meconium Samples from Healthy Term Vaginally-Delivered Neonates: An Analysis of the Microbiota

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Hansen, Richard ^a,b   Scott, Karen P ^c   Khan, Shoaib ^a   Martin, Jenny C ^c   Berry, Susan H ^b   Stevenson, Matthew ^b   Okpapi, Augusta ^a   Munro, Michael J ^a   Hold, Georgina L ^b  

^a ABERDEEN MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS OUTCOME; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLACEAE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MECONIUM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA BUCCAE; STAPHYLOCOCCACEAE; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; BACTERIUM; GENETICS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BACTERIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MECONIUM; MICROBIOTA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 84942019475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133320     Document Type: Article

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