Sensitive quantitative analysis of the meconium bacterial microbiota in healthy term infants born vaginally or by cesarean section

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2016, Pages

  Nagpal, Ravinder ^a   Tsuji, Hirokazu ^b   Takahashi, Takuya ^b   Kawashima, Kazunari ^c   Nagata, Satoru ^d   Nomoto, Koji ^b   Yamashiro, Yuichiro ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Gonohashi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital   (Japan)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C section; Dysbiosis; Gut bacteria; Intestinal microbiota; Lactobacillus; Meconium; RT qPCR

Indexed keywords

ATOPOBIUM; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; CESAREAN SECTION; CLADISTICS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GENUS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; JAPANESE (CITIZEN); LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECONIUM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVOTELLA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 85008887102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01997     Document Type: Article

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