Development of Human Breast Milk Microbiota-Associated Mice as a Method to Identify Breast Milk Bacteria Capable of Colonizing Gut

Development of Human Breast Milk Microbiota-Associated Mice as a Method to Identify Breast Milk Bacteria Capable of Colonizing Gut

Human breast milk is recognized as one of multiple important sources of commensal bacteria for infant gut. Previous studies searched for the bacterial strains shared between breast milk and infant feces by isolating bacteria and performing strain-level bacterial genotyping, but only limited number o...

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Main Authors: Xiaoxin Wang, Huifang Lu, Zhou Feng, Jie Cao, Chao Fang, Xianming Xu, Liping Zhao, Jian Shen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
breast milk
germfree mice
gut
bacteria
gnotobiotic
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.01242/full

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