Several bacterial species initially colonise the infant gut, but are outcompeted. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) in breast milk create an environment for Bifidobacterium to flourish. Laursen and Roager recently showed a clear link between breast milk and the dominance of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis in the infant gut. Crown Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Cassie R Bakshani, Lucy I Crouch. Human milk oligosaccharides and Bifidobacterium species. Trends in microbiology. 2024 Feb;32(2):118-119
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