Probiotics to improve the gut microbiome in premature infants: are we there yet?

EM Mercer, MC Arrieta - Gut microbes, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Gut microbiome maturation in infants born prematurely is uniquely influenced by the
physiological, clinical, and environmental factors surrounding preterm birth and early life …

The nonbacterial microbiome: fungal and viral contributions to the preterm infant gut in health and disease

A Wilson, B Bogie, H Chaaban, K Burge - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
The intestinal microbiome is frequently implicated in necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
pathogenesis. While no particular organism has been associated with NEC development, a …

Maturational patterns of the infant gut mycobiome are associated with early-life body mass index

MW Gutierrez, EM Mercer, S Moossavi… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Unlike the bacterial microbiome, the role of early-life gut fungi in host metabolism and
childhood obesity development remains poorly characterized. To address this, we …

Divergent maturational patterns of the infant bacterial and fungal gut microbiome in the first year of life are associated with inter-kingdom community dynamics and …

EM Mercer, HR Ramay, S Moossavi… - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background The gut microbiome undergoes primary ecological succession over the course
of early life before achieving ecosystem stability around 3 years of age. These maturational …

Gut mycobiome dysbiosis and its impact on intestinal permeability in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder

LJ Wang, SC Li, YM Yeh, SY Lee… - Journal of Child …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Dysbiosis in the gut microbial community might be involved in the
pathophysiology of attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The fungal component of …

The effect of antibiotics on the infant gut fungal microbiota

R Ventin-Holmberg, S Saqib, K Korpela, A Nikkonen… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antibiotics are commonly used drugs in infants, causing disruptions in the developing gut
microbiota with possible detrimental long-term effects such as chronic inflammatory …

Mycobiota composition and changes across pregnancy in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)

I Ferrocino, V Ponzo, M Pellegrini, I Goitre… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The gut mycobiota has never been studied either during pregnancy or in patients with
gestational diabetes (GDM). This study aimed to analyze the fecal mycobiota of GDM …

Intestinal flora and linear growth in children

P He, X Shen, S Guo - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The gut microbiota plays a critical role in human growth and development as well as the
regulation of human pathophysiological processes. According to research, the gut …

Association of pooled fecal microbiota on height growth in children according to enterotypes

S Park, S Kang - Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The association between fecal microbiota and height in children has yielded
conflicting findings, warranting further investigation into potential differences in fecal …

Precocious infant fecal microbiome promotes enterocyte barrier dysfuction, altered neuroendocrine signaling and associates with increased childhood obesity risk

GJM Yong, CE Porsche, AR Sitarik, KE Fujimura… - Gut …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Early life gut microbiome composition has been correlated with childhood obesity, though
microbial functional contributions to disease origins remain unclear. Here, using an infant …