Microbial programming of health and disease starts during fetal life

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 265-277

  Koleva, Petya T ^a   Kim, Ji Sun ^b   Scott, James A ^b   Kozyrskyj, Anita L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood diseases; Fetal programming; Infancy; Meconium; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIRTH; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DYSBIOSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA; FETUS (ANATOMY); HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS; LEUCONOSTOC; MECONIUM; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; FETUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY;

FETUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84955672514     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.21117     Document Type: Article

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