Researchers
at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia get a significant glimpse into
microbiome development in early life;
Important new information on bacterial colonization of the
infant's gut.
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| How the gut microbiome develops in the first hours of infancy |
Researchers Get Important Glimpse into Microbiome Development in Early Life
Researchers
at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have described how the gut
microbiome develops in the first hours of infancy, providing an important baseline for how changes in this environment might affect health and cause
diseases later in life.
The researchers understand the significant connection between
human health and many species of bacteria in the gut microbiome, how these
species emerge in infancy and what functions the species serve are not fully
understood.
They focused on three species of bacteria - Enterococcus
faecalis, Escherichia coli, and Bacteroides vulgatus.
The findings were published online by the journal Nature
Microbiology.