Studying vertical microbiome transmission from mothers to infants by strain-level metagenomic profiling

mSystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Asnicar, Francesco ^a   Manara, Serena ^a   Zolfo, Moreno ^a   Tin Truong, Duy ^a   Scholz, Matthias ^a   Armanini, Federica ^a   Ferretti, Pamela ^a   Gorfer, Valentina ^b   Pedrotti, Anna ^b   Tett, Adrian ^a   Segata, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infant microbiome; Metagenomics; Microbial ecology; Microbial genomics; Vertical microbiome transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031324393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00164-16     Document Type: Article

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