Why don't all infants have bifidobacteria in their stool?

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Tannock, Gerald W ^a,b   Lee, Pheng Soon ^a,c   Wong, Khai Hong ^c   Lawley, Blair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c Mead Johnson Nutritionals   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifidobacteria; Child development; Fecal microbiota; Infants; Lachnospiraceae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYSIPELOTRICHACEAE; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION; LACHNOSPIRACEAE; MILK; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84973461965     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00834     Document Type: Note

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