Planting the seed: Origins, composition, and postnatal health significance of the fetal gastrointestinal microbiota

Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 352-369

  Stinson, Lisa F ^a   Payne, Matthew S ^a   Keelan, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microbiome; metabolome; neonate; developmental origins; intrauterine infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; COMMENSAL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DRUG USE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROORGANISM; MOUTH FLORA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VAGINA FLORA; ANIMAL; CESAREAN SECTION; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMMUNOLOGY; MECONIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; PREGNANCY; VAGINA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MECONIUM; MOUTH; PREBIOTICS; PREGNANCY; PROBIOTICS; VAGINA;

EID: 85014965486     PISSN: 1040841X     EISSN: 15497828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1040841X.2016.1211088     Document Type: Review

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