Investigating the infant gut microbiota in developing countries: worldwide metagenomic meta-analysis involving infants living in sub-urban areas of Cote d'Ivoire.

ABSTRACT: In recent decades, infants' gut microbiota has aroused constant scientific interest, primarily due to early- and long-term repercussions on the host health. In this context, nutritional challenges such as those found in less developed countries can influence infants' gut microbiota development, thus generating potentially critical health outcomes. However, comprehensive investigations regarding species-level differences in the infant gut microbiota's composition between urbanized and rural countries are still missing. In this study, 16S rRNA and Shallow Shotgun metagenomics sequencing were exploited to dissect the microbial community's species-level composition of 11 faecal samples collected from infants living in a semi-urban area of Sub-Saharan Africa, i.e. Côte d'Ivoire. Moreover, the g

SUBMITTER: Fontana F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8518733 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature