Mother’s milk microbiota is associated with the developing gut microbial consortia in very-low-birthweight infants
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Sara Shama, Michelle R. Asbury, Alex Kiss, ..., Pauline W. Wang, the OptiMoM Feeding Group, Deborah L. O’Connor
Shama and Asbury et al. demonstrate that, despite clinical interventions that perturb microbiomes, mother’s milk microbes and their dose are associated with gut microbial development in verylow-birth-weight (VLBW) infants. This highlights the potential for mother’s milk microbes to colonize the VLBW infant gut, especially with direct breastfeeding and limited antibiotics.
