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Neonatal gut colonization by Bifidobacterium is associated with higher childhood cytokine responses
9 Nov 2020
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The gut microbiota is a major stimulus for the immune system, and late acquisition of bacteria and/or reduced complexity of the gut flora may delay adaptive immune maturation. However, it is unknown how the gut bacterial colonization pattern in human infants is related to T cell activation during early childhood. We followed 65 Swedish children in the FARMFLORA cohort, from birth up to 3 years of age. In fecal...
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