Food allergy is a pathological, potentially deadly, immune reaction triggered by normally
innocuous food protein antigens. The prevalence of food allergies is rising and the standard …

Background The human gut is the habitat for diverse and dynamic microbial ecosystem. The
human microbiota plays a critical role in functions that sustain health and is a positive asset …

Objective Dysbiosis of the infant gut microbiota may have long‐term health consequences.
This study aimed to determine the impact of maternal intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis (IAP) …

Background Gut microbiota may play a role in the natural history of cow's milk allergy.
Objective We sought to examine the association between early-life gut microbiota and the …

Ingestion of innocuous antigens, including food proteins, normally results in local and
systemic immune nonresponsiveness in a process termed oral tolerance. Oral tolerance to …

Background We hypothesized that food sensitization (FS) in children could be linked to
specific gut microbiota. The aim of our study is to quantify and evaluate differences in gut …

abstract Hippocrates is often credited with first recognizing that food could be responsible for
adverse symptoms and even death in some individuals, but it was not until the seminal …

Allergic disease affects millions. Despite many advances in our understanding of the
immune system in the past century, the physiologic underpinning for the existence of allergy …

Different factors are known to influence the early gut colonization in newborns, among them
the perinatal use of antibiotics. On the other hand, the effect on the baby of the …

Food allergy has rapidly increased in prevalence, suggesting an important role for
environmental factors in disease susceptibility. The immune response of food allergy is …