First-Pass Meconium Samples from Healthy Term Vaginally-Delivered Neonates: An Analysis of the Microbiota.

<h4>Background</h4>Considerable effort has been made to categorise the bacterial composition of the human gut and correlate findings with gastrointestinal disease. The infant gut has long been considered sterile at birth followed by rapid colonisation; however, this view has recently bee...

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Main Authors: Richard Hansen, Karen P Scott, Shoaib Khan, Jenny C Martin, Susan H Berry, Matthew Stevenson, Augusta Okpapi, Michael J Munro, Georgina L Hold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133320