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The gut microbiome impacts many areas of health.
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Infant Gut Microbiome, Pregnancy and Nutrition
Infants’ First Solid Foods: Impact on Gut Microbiota Development in Two Intercontinental Cohorts. 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/8/2639#abstractc
Investigating colonization patterns of the infant gut microbiome during the introduction of solid food and weaning from breastmilk: A cohort study protocol. 2021. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8018627/
Development of the Microbiota and Associations With Birth Mode, Diet, and Atopic Disorders in a Longitudinal Analysis of Stool Samples, Collected From Infancy Through Early Childhood. 2020. https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(20)30113-X/fulltext?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F
The influence of maternal and infant nutrition on cardiometabolic traits: novel findings and future research directions from four Canadian birth cohort studies. 2019. https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/146977/
Pregnancy outcomes in women taking probiotics or prebiotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2018. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759212/
Intrapartum antibiotics for GBS prophylaxis alter colonization patterns in the early infant gut microbiome of low risk infants. 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5705725/
Ethnic and diet-related differences in the healthy infant microbiome. 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5372248/
A comparison of intestinal microbiota in a population of low-risk infants exposed and not exposed to intrapartum antibiotics: The Baby & Microbiota of the Intestine cohort study protocol. 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103394/
Vaginal Microbiome
Medroxyprogesterone acetate alters the vaginal microbiota and microenvironment in women and increases susceptibility to HIV-1 in humanized mice. 2019. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826019/
Association of high-risk sexual behaviour with diversity of the vaginal microbiota and abundance of Lactobacillus. 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5667760/
Respiratory Tract Microbiome
Culture and Molecular Profiling of the Respiratory Tract Microbiota. 2018. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30298247/
Culture and molecular-based profiles show shifts in bacterial communities of the upper respiratory tract that occur with age. 2015. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4409167/
The loss of topography in the microbial communities of the upper respiratory tract in the elderly. 2014. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24601676/
Other
Probiotic supplementation can positively affect anxiety and depressive symptoms: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. 2016. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27632908/
Bacterial biogeography of the human digestive tract. 2011. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3240969/
