Maternal breast‐milk and intestinal bifidobacteria guide the compositional development of the <i>Bifidobacterium</i> microbiota in infants at risk of allergic disease

Abstract

Breast-milk contains significant numbers of bifidobacteria and the maternal allergic status further deranges the counts of bifidobacteria in breast-milk. Maternal fecal and breast-milk bifidobacterial counts impacted on the infants' fecal Bifidobacterium levels. Breast-milk bacteria should thus be considered an important source of bacteria in the establishment of infantile intestinal microbiota.