Food Allergies Potentially linked to Infant Bottle-Feeding and Gut Microbiome

The first year of life is critical to development of the human gut microbiome. The changes in relative abundance of different families and species of bacteria that colonize the gut during that first year can be delayed or changed by factors including whether delivery is vaginal or by cesarean section, whether infants are breast- or bottle-fed, and early exposure to antibiotics. A Canadian researcher team has used bacterial gene sequencing to analyze the changing abundance of different gut bacter