ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020
Milk Microbiota: What Are We Exactly Talking About?
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers.
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89 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development and evaluation of a real-time PCR assay for the detection of bovine Milk in foods.Food chemistry. Molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Subclinical Mastitis and Antibiotic Exposure Reshape the Milk Bacteriome, Resistome, and Metabolic Functional Profiles in Dairy Cows.MicrobiologyOpen · 2026Article
- Amplification-Free Detection of MiRNA Signatures in Milk: A Noninvasive Sensing Approach for Early Diagnosis of Bovine Mastitis.ACS measurement science au · 2026Article
- The human breast milk microbiome: a landscape review of its composition, origins, and impact on infant health.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Variations in cow milk and teat skin microbiota across the lactation cycle with intramammary cephalosporin use at dry-off.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- The Dairy Ruminant Gut Microbiome: Profile, Responsiveness to Seasonality and Impact on Milk Quality.Environmental microbiology · 2026Review
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- Microbiome of Bovine Milk and Factors Influencing Its Composition.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Dynamics of the milk microbial community during subacute ruminal acidosis with or without intramammary lipopolysaccharide challenge in dairy cows.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Longitudinal study of the udder microbiome using genome-centric metagenomics uncovers pathogen-driven adaptation and succession.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Article
- The Microbial Composition of Bovine Colostrum as Influenced by Antibiotic Treatment.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- An investigation into variations in the raw milk microbiota of dairy cows in Ningxia, China: effects of season, farm, parity, and health status.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- Microbiome study of Murrah buffalo mastitis milk with emphasis on Acinetobacter species.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Antibiotic resistance in mastitis-causing bacteria: Exploring antibiotic-resistance genes, underlying mechanisms, and their implications for dairy animal and public health.Open veterinary journal · 2025Review
- Analysis of the Microbiota of Milk from Holstein-Friesian Dairy Cows Fed a Microbial Supplement.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Probiotic Dairy Innovations: Exploring Buffalo Milk Potential for Food Product Development.Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety · 2025Review
- The Impact of Dietary Habits and Maternal Body Composition on Human Milk Microbiota-Polish Pilot Study.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Analysis of Bacterial Diversity in Jersey Cow Colostrum and Mature Milk and the Study of the Probiotic Functions ofFood science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Functional efficacy ofFuture microbiology · 2025Article
- New insights into the cultivability of human milk bacteria from ingestion to digestion and implications for their Immunomodulatory properties.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
The development of powerful sequencing techniques has allowed, albeit with some biases, the identification and inventory of complex microbial communities that inhabit different body sites or body fluids, some of which were previously considered sterile. Notably, milk is now considered to host a complex microbial community with great diversity. Milk microbiota is now well documented in various hosts. Based on the growing literature on this microbial community, we address here the question of what milk microbiota is. We summarize and compare the microbial composition of milk in humans and in ruminants and address the existence of a putative core milk microbiota. We discuss the factors that contribute to shape the milk microbiota or affect its composition, including host and environmental factors as well as methodological factors, such as the sampling and sequencing techniques, which likely introduce distortion in milk microbiota analysis. The roles that milk microbiota are likely to play in the mother and offspring physiology and health are presented together with recent data on the hypothesis of an enteromammary pathway. At last, this fascinating field raises a series of questions, which are listed and commented here and which open new research avenues.
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