Milk Microbiota: What Are We Exactly Talking About?

ABSTRACT: The development of powerful sequencing techniques has allowed, albeit with some biases, the identification and inventory of complex microbial communities that inhabit different body sites or body fluids, some of which were previously considered sterile. Notably, milk is now considered to host a complex microbial community with great diversity. Milk microbiota is now well documented in various hosts. Based on the growing literature on this microbial community, we address here the question of what milk microbiota is. We summarize and compare the microbial composition of milk in humans and in ruminants and address the existence of a putative core milk microbiota. We discuss the factors that contribute to shape the milk microbiota or affect its composition, including host and environmental fac

SUBMITTER: Oikonomou G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7034295 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature