“…The analysis of gut microbiome development over the first week based on alpha and beta diversity in terms of relative abundance showed that for the 8 subjects providing 24 feces samples at the three time points, i.e., meconium, day 4 feces, and day 7 feces, Proteobacteria and Firmicutes were dominant at the phylum level, while at the genus level, unidentified Enterobacteriaceae were most abundant, as has been reported widely 1 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 10 , 29 – 34 . This result is similar to our previous study on cultivable bacteria from meconium from neonates born in CMH 9 . The microbiomes of meconium, as the first feces in this study, were relatively similar, with one subject showing a high abundance of the genus Ureaplasma and the rest showing a high abundance of Enterobacter.…”