ArticleNutrients2021
Early Gut Microbiota Colonisation of Premature Infants Fed with Breastmilk or Formula with or without Probiotics: A Cohort Study.
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- Predispose, precipitate, perpetuate, and protect: how diet and the gut influence mental health in emerging adulthood.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- Oropharyngeal administration of colostrum targeting gut microbiota and metabolites in very preterm infants: protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
- Determinants of microbial colonization in the premature gut.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Review
- Therapeutic Potential of Gut Microbiota and Its Metabolite Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Neonatal Necrotizing Enterocolitis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Feed Safety and the Development of Poultry Intestinal Microbiota.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Review
- Comparative study on the microbiota of colostrum and nipple skin from lactating mothers separated from their newborn at birth in China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Dynamic Changes of the Gut Microbiota in Preterm Infants With Different Gestational Age.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Association of blood transfusion-related di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate exposure with gut microbiota alterations in preterm infants.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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- Neonatal intestinal colonization ofGut microbesArticle
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11 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Premature infants have a fragile ecology of the gut microbiota, which is associated with many health problems and may be influenced by formula versus breast feeding. The present study investigated differences in the process of gut microbiota colonisation in preterm infants fed with breastmilk or formula with or without probiotics before 12 weeks. This cohort study recruited 138 premature infants; 31 in the breastmilk (BM) group, 59 in the probiotics formula (PF) group and 48 in the non-probiotics formula (NPF) group, according to the feeding practice they received at birth. Gut bacterial composition was identified with 16S rRNA gene sequencing in faecal samples collected at 1 week, 6 weeks and 12 weeks after birth. The alpha diversity was higher in the PF group compared to the other groups at week 1 and 6 (both
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