The composition of human milk and infant faecal microbiota over the first three months of life: A pilot study

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Murphy, Kiera ^a,b,c   Curley, David ^d   O'callaghan, Tom F ^a,b   O'shea, Carol Anne ^c,d   Dempsey, Eugene M ^c,d   O'toole, Paul W ^b,c   Ross, R Paul ^b,c   Ryan, C Anthony ^c,d   Stanton, Catherine ^a,c  

^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

BIFIDOBACTERIUM BREVE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; FECES MICROFLORA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; INFANT; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; BIODIVERSITY; FECES; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MILK, HUMAN; PILOT PROJECTS;

EID: 85009775007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep40597     Document Type: Article

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