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SUBMITTER: Parnanen K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6155145 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180924 1
The infant gut microbiota has a high abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) compared to adults, even in the absence of antibiotic exposure. Here we study potential sources of infant gut ARGs by performing metagenomic sequencing of breast milk, as well as infant and maternal gut microbiomes. We find that fecal ARG and mobile genetic element (MGE) profiles of infants are more similar to those of their own mothers than to those of unrelated mothers. MGEs in mothers' breast milk are also sh ...[more]