Species- and subspecies-level characterization of health-associated bacterial consortia that colonize the human gut during infancy
Samuel S. Minot,
Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell,
Andrew Fiore-Gartland
et al.
Abstract:Background
The human gut microbiome develops rapidly during infancy, a key window of development coinciding with the maturation of the adaptive immune system. However, little is known about the microbiome growth dynamics over the first few months of life and whether there are any generalizable patterns across human populations. We performed metagenomic sequencing on stool samples (
n
= 94) from a cohort of infants (
n
= 15) at monthly intervals… Show more
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