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Birth of the Infant Gut Microbiome: Moms Deliver Twice!

Abstract

The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microbes shortly after birth. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe,Bäckhed et al. (2015) shed new light on the assembly of the infant gut microbiome early in life, and how diet and delivery mode shape this community in a western human population.

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