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Sensitive Quantitative Analysis of the Meconium Bacterial Microbiota in Healthy Term Infants Born Vaginally or by Cesarean Section

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Gut Bifidobacterium microbiota in one-month-old Brazilian newborns

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Dynamics and Stabilization of the Human Gut Microbiome during the First Year of Life

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Establishment of a sensitive system for analysis of human vaginal microbiota on the basis of rRNA-targeted reverse transcription-quantitative PCR

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Multilocus sequence typing of bifidobacterial strains from infant’s faeces and human milk: are bifidobacteria being sustainably shared during breastfeeding?

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Diversity of Intestinal Clostridium coccoides Group in the Japanese Population, as Demonstrated by Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR

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(2014) Rafael Tojo   WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY

Comparison of the Compositions of the Stool Microbiotas of Infants Fed Goat Milk Formula, Cow Milk-Based Formula, or Breast Milk

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Bifidobacteria and humans: our special friends, from ecological to genomics perspectives

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Succinate is an inflammatory signal that induces IL-1β through HIF-1α

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Assessing the Fecal Microbiota: An Optimized Ion Torrent 16S rRNA Gene-Based Analysis Protocol

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High-Fat Diet Reduces the Formation of Butyrate, but Increases Succinate, Inflammation, Liver Fat and Cholesterol in Rats, while Dietary Fibre Counteracts These Effects

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Sex Differences in the Gut Microbiome Drive Hormone-Dependent Regulation of Autoimmunity

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Sensitive Quantification of Clostridium difficile Cells by Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR Targeting rRNA Molecules

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Diversity of Bifidobacteria within the Infant Gut Microbiota

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Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

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Detection of Human Intestinal Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Cocci by rRNA-Targeted Reverse Transcription-PCR

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Examination of faecal Bifidobacterium populations in breast- and formula-fed infants during the first 18 months of life

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Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns

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Mixed-Species Genomic Microarray Analysis of Fecal Samples Reveals Differential Transcriptional Responses of Bifidobacteria in Breast- and Formula-Fed Infants

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Establishment of an Analytical System for the Human Fecal Microbiota, Based on Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR Targeting of Multicopy rRNA Molecules

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Microbiomic analysis of the bifidobacterial population in the human distal gut

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Influence of Maternal Bifidobacteria on the Establishment of Bifidobacteria Colonizing the Gut in Infants

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High-throughput diversity and functionality analysis of the gastrointestinal tract microbiota

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BifidobacteriumandLactobacillusDNA in the human placenta

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The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals adaptations for milk utilization within the infant microbiome

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Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum is associated with atopic eczema: A nested case-control study investigating the fecal microbiota of infants

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