The first microbial colonizers of the human gut: composition, activities, and health implications of the infant gut microbiota

C Milani, S Duranti, F Bottacini, E Casey… - Microbiology and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The human gut microbiota is engaged in multiple interactions affecting host health during
the host's entire life span. Microbes colonize the neonatal gut immediately following birth …

Temporal development of the infant gut microbiome

RE Moore, SD Townsend - Open biology, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The majority of organisms that inhabit the human body reside in the gut. Since babies are
born with an immature immune system, they depend on a highly synchronized microbial …

Intestinal dysbiosis in preterm infants preceding necrotizing enterocolitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Pammi, J Cope, PI Tarr, BB Warner, AL Morrow… - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a catastrophic disease of preterm infants, and
microbial dysbiosis has been implicated in its pathogenesis. Studies evaluating the …

Persistent metagenomic signatures of early-life hospitalization and antibiotic treatment in the infant gut microbiota and resistome

AJ Gasparrini, B Wang, X Sun, EA Kennedy… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Hospitalized preterm infants receive frequent and often prolonged exposures to antibiotics
because they are vulnerable to infection. It is not known whether the short-term effects of …

Clinical implications of preterm infant gut microbiome development

DB Healy, CA Ryan, RP Ross, C Stanton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Perturbations to the infant gut microbiome during the first weeks to months of life affect
growth, development and health. In particular, assembly of an altered intestinal microbiota …

Probiotics, prebiotics and amelioration of diseases

YL Tsai, TL Lin, CJ Chang, TR Wu, WF Lai… - Journal of biomedical …, 2019 - Springer
Dysbiosis of gut microbiota is closely related to occurrence of many important chronic
inflammations-related diseases. So far the traditionally prescribed prebiotics and probiotics …

The role of the microbiome in the developmental origins of health and disease

LT Stiemsma, KB Michels - Pediatrics, 2018 - publications.aap.org
Although the prominent role of the microbiome in human health has been established, the
early-life microbiome is now being recognized as a major influence on long-term human …

Preterm birth and sustained inflammation: consequences for the neonate

A Humberg, I Fortmann, B Siller, MV Kopp… - Seminars in …, 2020 - Springer
Almost half of all preterm births are caused or triggered by an inflammatory process at the
feto-maternal interface resulting in preterm labor or rupture of membranes with or without …

Probiotics in disease prevention and treatment

Y Liu, DQ Tran, JM Rhoads - The Journal of Clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Few treatments for human diseases have received as much investigation in the past 20
years as probiotics. In 2017, English‐language meta‐analyses totaling 52 studies …

Fecal filtrate transplantation protects against necrotizing enterocolitis

A Brunse, L Deng, X Pan, Y Hui… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a life-threatening gastrointestinal disorder afflicting
preterm infants, which is currently unpreventable. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a …