Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

V. Blanton, Laura; R. Charbonneau, Mark; Salih, Tarek; J. Barratt, Michael; Venkatesh, Siddarth; Ilkaveya, Olga; Subramanian, Sathish; Manary, Mark; Trehan, Indi; M Jorgensen, Josh; Fan, Yue‐Mei; Henrissat, Bernard; A. Leyn, Semen; A. Rodionov, Dmitry; L. Osterman, Andrei; Maleta, Kenneth; B. Newgard, Christopher; Ashorn, Per; G. Dewey, Kathryn; I. Gordon, Jeffrey

doi:10.1126/science.aad3311

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Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children

Published in Science • Feb 19, 2016

Authors:

Laura V. Blanton

Mark R. Charbonneau

Tarek Salih

Abstract

Undernourished children exhibit impaired development of their gut microbiota. Transplanting microbiota from 6- and 18-month-old healthy or undernourished Malawian donors into young germ-free mice that were fed a Malawian diet revealed that immature microbiota from undernourished infants and children...

Subject

Bacteria

Gut bacteria

Biology

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