Cesarean or vaginal birth does not impact the longitudinal development of the gut microbiome in a cohort of exclusively preterm infants

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue JUN, 2017, Pages

  Stewart, Christopher J ^a   Embleton, Nicholas D ^b   Clements, Elizabeth ^c   Luna, Pamela N ^d   Smith, Daniel P ^a   Fofanova, Tatiana Y ^a   Nelson, Andrew ^e   Taylor, Gillian ^c   Orr, Caroline H ^c   Petrosino, Joseph F ^a   Berrington, Janet E ^b   Cummings, Stephen P ^c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Rice University   (United States)

^e NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rRNA sequencing; Birth mode; Cesarean; Gut microbiome; Preterm infants; Vaginal

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 85020435860     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01008     Document Type: Article

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