Kelsea Drall, Hein Tun, Meghan B Azad, David Guttman, Malcolm Sears, Puishkumar Mandhane, Padmaja Subbarao, Stuart Turvey, Allan Becker, Diana Lefebvre, Nadia Morales-Lizcano, Theodore Konya, James Scott, Anita Kozyrskyj
Objectives: Colonization with Clostridioides difficile occurs in up to half of infants and is predicted by formula feeding. Although this microbe does not appear to pose any immediate risks for infants, its presence has been associated with susceptibility to chronic disease later in childhood, perhaps by promoting changes in the gut microbiome that may increase opportunity for colonization of pathogenic bacteria. We explored these compositional changes in exclusively breastfed, partially breastfed and exclusively formula fed infants to describe the microbial community and C...
June 2019: Current Developments in Nutrition