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Mother’s Milk: A Purposeful Contribution to the Development of the Infant Microbiota and Immunity
28 Feb 2018
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Breast milk is the perfect nutrition for infants, a result of millions of years of evolution. In addition to providing a source of nutrition, breast milk contains a diverse array of microbiota and myriad biologically active components that are thought to guide the infant's developing mucosal immune system. It is believed that bacteria from the mother's intestine may translocate to breast milk and dynamically...
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