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BENEFICIAL MICROBES
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 231-238Publisher
WAGENINGEN ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3920/BM2017.0133
Keywords
Bifidobacterium; breast milk; infant faeces; PFGE; vertical transmission
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) [RM2010-00008-00-00, RTA2013-00029-00-00]
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Importance of bifidobacteria as part of the infant intestinal microbiota has been highlighted. Their acquisition is influenced by the mode of birth and the feed regime afterwards, with a special role of the maternal microbiota. The presence of the same shared bifidobacterial strains between breast milk and infant faeces in 14 mother-infant pairs was assessed by means of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) genotyping. Four shared strains of Bifidobacterium breve (2), Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis and B. longum subsp. longum were found in breast milk-infant faeces pairs. Two years later, a second survey yielded four shared strains of the species Bifidobacterium adolescentis, Bifidobacterium bifidum, B. longum subsp. longum and Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum. Moreover, a B. bifidum strain was found to be shared by the infant faeces of the first study and the mother faeces tested two years later, pointing out a long term persistence. Some of the selected bifidobacterial strains showed probiotic potential due to their survival to gastrointestinal conditions and their ability to form biofilms.
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