Salivary microbiomes of indigenous Tsimane mothers and infants are distinct despite frequent premastication
Background Premastication, the transfer of pre-chewed food, is a common infant and young child feeding practice among the Tsimane, forager-horticulturalists living in the Bolivian Amazon. Research conducted primarily with Western populations has shown that infants harbor distinct oral microbiota fro...
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PeerJ Inc.
2016-11-01
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