Bacterial Composition and Diversity in Breast Milk Samples from Mothers Living in Taiwan and Mainland China

Bacterial Composition and Diversity in Breast Milk Samples from Mothers Living in Taiwan and Mainland China

Human breast milk is widely recognized as the best source of nutrients for healthy growth and development of infants; it contains a diverse microbiota. Here, we characterized the diversity of the microbiota in the breast milk of East Asian women and assessed whether delivery mode influenced the micr...

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Main Authors: Shiao-Wen Li, Koichi Watanabe, Chih-Chieh Hsu, Shiou-Huei Chao, Zheng-Hua Yang, Yan-Jun Lin, Chun-Chiang Chen, Yong-Mei Cao, Hsuan-Cheng Huang, Chuan-Hsiung Chang, Ying-Chieh Tsai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
16S rRNA gene sequencing
human breast milk
microbiota
Taiwan
Mainland China
vaginal delivery
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00965/full

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