Stunted microbiota and opportunistic pathogen colonization in caesarean-section birth.

ABSTRACT: Immediately after birth, newborn babies experience rapid colonization by microorganisms from their mothers and the surrounding environment¹. Diseases in childhood and later in life are potentially mediated by the perturbation of the colonization of the infant gut microbiota². However, the effects of delivery via caesarean section on the earliest stages of the acquisition and development of the gut microbiota, during the neonatal period (≤1 month), remain controversial^3,4. Here we report the disrupted transmission of maternal Bacteroides strains, and high-level colonization by opportunistic pathogens associated with the hospital environment (including Enterococcus, Enterobacter and Klebsiella species), in babies delivered by caesarean section. These effects

SUBMITTER: Shao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6894937 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature