The Fecal Microbial Community of Breast-fed Infants from Armenia and Georgia.

ABSTRACT: Multiple factors help shape the infant intestinal microbiota early in life. Environmental conditions such as the presence of bioactive molecules from breast milk dictate gut microbial growth and survival. Infants also receive distinct, personalized, bacterial exposures leading to differential colonization. Microbial exposures and gut environmental conditions differ between infants in different locations, as does the typical microbial community structure in an infant's gut. Here we evaluate potential influences on the infant gut microbiota through a longitudinal study on cohorts of breast-fed infants from the neighboring countries of Armenia and Georgia, an area of the world for which the infant microbiome has not been previously investigated. Marker gene sequencing of 16S ribosomal genes r

SUBMITTER: Lewis ZT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5288704 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature