Maternal carriage of Prevotella during pregnancy associates with protection against food allergy in the offspring

Maternal carriage of Prevotella during pregnancy associates with protection against food allergy in the offspring

Incidence of food allergy in westernized populations is associated with low abundance of Prevotella. Here, the authors analyse the microbiome of a mother-infant prebirth cohort and find that maternal carriage, but not infant carriage, of P. copri during pregnancy predicts the absence of food allergy...

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Main Authors: Peter J. Vuillermin, Martin O’Hely, Fiona Collier, Katrina J. Allen, Mimi L. K. Tang, Leonard C. Harrison, John B. Carlin, Richard Saffery, Sarath Ranganathan, Peter D. Sly, Lawrence Gray, John Molloy, Angela Pezic, Michael Conlon, David Topping, Karen Nelson, Charles R. Mackay, Laurence Macia, Jennifer Koplin, Samantha L. Dawson, Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, the J. Craig Venter Institute, the BIS Investigator Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14552-1

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14552-1

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