Evolution of gut Bifidobacterium population in healthy Japanese infants over the first three years of life: A quantitative assessment

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

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

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAKULT CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c Gonohashi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital   (Japan)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BREAST; CLADISTICS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPANESE (CITIZEN); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FECES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85028619321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10711-5     Document Type: Article

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