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Maternal breast-milk and intestinal bifidobacteria guide the compositional development of the Bifidobacterium microbiota in infants at risk of allergic disease



Authors: Gronlund MM, Gueimonde M, Laitinen K, Kociubinski G, Gronroos T, Salminen S, Isolauri E

Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING

Publication year: 2007

Journal: Clinical and Experimental Allergy

Journal name in source: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

Journal acronym: CLIN EXP ALLERGY

Volume: 37

Issue: 12

First page : 1764

Last page: 1772

Number of pages: 9

ISSN: 0954-7894

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02849.x


Abstract
Conclusions Breast-milk contains significant numbers of bifidobacteria and the maternal allergic status further deranges the counts of bifidobacteria in breast-milk. Maternal fecal and breast-milk bifidobacterial counts impacted on the infants' fecal Bifidobacterium levels. Breast-milk bacteria should thus be considered an important source of bacteria in the establishment of infantile intestinal microbiota.



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