Gut microbiome development in early childhood is affected by day care attendance

Abstract The human gut microbiome develops during the first years of life, followed by a relatively stable adult microbiome. Day care attendance is a drastic change that exposes children to a large group of peers in a diverse environment for prolonged periods, at this critical time of microbial deve...

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Published in:npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Main Authors: Amnon Amir, Ortal Erez-Granat, Tzipi Braun, Katya Sosnovski, Rotem Hadar, Marina BenShoshan, Sophia Heiman, Haya Abbas-Egbariya, Efrat Glick Saar, Gilat Efroni, Yael Haberman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00265-w