Individuality of the Extremely Premature Infant Gut Microbiota Is Driven by Ecological Drift
ABSTRACT The initial contact between humans and their colonizing gut microbiota after birth is thought to have expansive and long-lasting consequences for physiology and health. Premature infants are at high risk of suffering from lifelong impairments, due in part to aberrant development of gut micr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2022-06-01
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Series: | mSystems |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00163-22 |