ArticleArchives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition2022
Effect of antibiotics in the first week of life on faecal microbiota development.
Article in Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Antibiotics in the first week of life are not associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders at 9-12 years of age.Journal of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition · 2026Observational
- Antibiotics in the first week of life and the association with atopic diseases at ages 9-12: a prospective cohort study.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- A unique blend of five human milk oligosaccharides supports recovery of infant microbiome composition and function afterFrontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Effect of perinatal ampicillin or amoxicillin/clavulanate exposure on maternal and infant gut microbiome, metabolome, and infant responses to the 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.Gut microbes reports · 2026Article
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- Effect of Perinatal Ampicillin or Amoxicillin/Clavulanate Exposure on Maternal and Infant Gut Microbiome, Metabolome, and Infant Responses to the 20-valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Impact of early life antibiotic and probiotic treatment on gut microbiome and resistome of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Antibiotic exposure is associated with minimal gut microbiome perturbations in healthy term infants.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Effect of β-lactam antibiotics on the gut microbiota of term neonates.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2024Article
- Variation in the Conservation of Species-Specific Gene Sets for HMO Degradation and Its Effects on HMO Utilization in Bifidobacteria.Nutrients · 2024Article
- A national survey of first line antibiotic use in neonatal units - and the potential scope for iatrogenic sensorineural hearing loss prevention.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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- The Bern Birth Cohort (BeBiCo) to study the development of the infant intestinal microbiota in a high-resource setting in Switzerland: rationale, design, and methods.BMC pediatrics · 2023Article
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- Microbiota-dependent influence of prebiotics on the resilience of infant gut microbiota to amoxicillin/clavulanate perturbation in anFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Improving the Treatment of Neonatal Sepsis in Resource-Limited Settings: Gaps and Recommendations.Research and reports in tropical medicine · 2023Review
- Clinical outcomes following pre-, pro- and synbiotic supplementation after caesarean birth or antibiotic exposure in the first week of life in term born infants: A systematic review of the literature.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
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10 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundInfants are frequently exposed to antibiotics (AB) in the first week of life for suspected bacterial infections. Little is known about the effect of AB on the developing intestinal microbiota. Therefore, we studied intestinal microbiota development with and without AB exposure in the first week of life in term born infants.
methodsWe analysed the faecal microbiota from birth until 2.5 years of age by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing in a cohort with 56 term born infants, exposed to AB in the first week of life (AB+) (AB for 2-3 days (AB2, n=20), AB for 7 days (AB7, n=36)), compared with 126 healthy controls (AB-). The effects of AB and duration were examined in relation to delivery and feeding mode.
resultsAB+ was associated with significantly increased relative abundance of
conclusionsAB exposure in the first week of life alters faecal microbiota development with deviations in the relative abundance of individual taxa until 1 year of age. These alterations can have long-term health consequences, which emphasises the need for future studies aiming at restoring intestinal microbiota after AB administration.
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