DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad7121 ISSN:
Antibiotics, birth mode, and diet shape microbiome maturation during early life
Nicholas A. Bokulich, Jennifer Chung, Thomas Battaglia, Nora Henderson, Melanie Jay, Huilin Li, Arnon D. Lieber, Fen Wu, Guillermo I. Perez-Perez, Yu Chen, William Schweizer, Xuhui Zheng, Monica Contreras, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, Martin J. Blaser- General Medicine
A longitudinal study of intestinal microbiota in children and their mothers shows that antibiotics, cesarean section, and infant formula alter patterns of microbial acquisition and succession during the first 2 years of childhood.