The neonatal gut harbours distinct bifidobacterial strains

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2015, Pages F405-F410

  Barrett, Eoin ^a,b   Deshpandey, A K ^c,d   Ryan, C A ^c,d   Dempsey, Eugene M ^c,d   Murphy, Brendan ^c,d   O'Sullivan, L ^a,b   Watkins, C ^a,c   Ross, R Paul ^a,b   O'Toole, Paul W ^b,c   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^b,c   Stanton, Catherine ^a,b  

^a TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA; PREBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIFIDOBACTERIALES INFECTION; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BREAST FEEDING; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST FEEDING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINES; PREBIOTICS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84946409983     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306110     Document Type: Article

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