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



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

Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING

: 2007

 Clinical and Experimental Allergy

: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGY

: CLIN EXP ALLERGY

: 37

: 12

: 1764

: 1772

: 9

: 0954-7894

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


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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