ReviewNature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology2012
Microbial contact during pregnancy, intestinal colonization and human disease.
Review in Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 193 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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193 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 446 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Gut Microbiome in Human and Animal Studies: A Comprehensive Systematic Review.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics on the prevention and treatment of atopic dermatitis in children: an umbrella meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Pooled it
- Lactobacillus rhamnosus Used in the Perinatal Period for the Prevention of Atopic Dermatitis in Infants: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2022Pooled it
- Impact of Maternal Nutritional Supplementation during Pregnancy and Lactation on the Infant Gut or Breastmilk Microbiota: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Reversible aberrancies in gut microbiome of moderate and late preterm infants: results from a randomized, controlled trial.Gut microbes · 2023Trial
- The preterm gut microbiota and administration routes of different probiotics: a randomized controlled trial.Pediatric research · 2023Trial
- A synbiotic intervention modulates meta-omics signatures of gut redox potential and acidity in elective caesarean born infants.BMC microbiology · 2021Trial
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- Early Probiotic Supplementation for Eczema and Asthma Prevention: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Pediatrics · 2017Trial
- Changes in the Gut Microbiota After Early Administration of Oral Synbiotics to Young Infants in India.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2017Trial
- Effects of osteopontin-enriched formula on lymphocyte subsets in the first 6 months of life: a randomized controlled trial.Pediatric research · 2017Trial
- Late preterm birth has direct and indirect effects on infant gut microbiota development during the first six months of life.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2017Trial
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- Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 in reducing the risk of infections in early childhood.Pediatric research · 2016Trial
- Probiotics during weaning: a follow-up study on effects on body composition and metabolic markers at school age.European journal of nutrition · 2015Trial
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- The Female Reproductive Microbiome: Mechanistic Insights and Bioengineering Perspectives.Biology · 2026Review
- The role of human milk oligosaccharides in shaping and restoring infant gut microbiota: population-based cohort study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Maternal Bacillus probiotic regulates offspring growth and immunity via spleen IGF-1/mTOR and FOXO1/IL-10 pathways.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Interaction with colonizing intestinal bacteria is essential for healthy intestinal and immunological development in infancy. Advances in understanding early host-microbe interactions indicate that this early microbial programming begins in utero and is substantially modulated by mode of birth, perinatal antibiotics and breastfeeding. Furthermore, it has become evident that this stepwise microbial colonization process, as well as immune and metabolic programming by the microbiota, might have a long-lasting influence on the risk of not only gastrointestinal disease, but also allergic, autoimmune and metabolic disease, in later life. Modulating early host-microbe interaction by maternal probiotic intervention during pregnancy and breastfeeding offers a promising novel tool to reduce the risk of disease. In this Review, we describe the current body of knowledge regarding perinatal microbial contact, initial intestinal colonization and its association with human disease, as well as means of modulating early host-microbe interaction to reduce the risk of disease in the child.
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