The intestinal microbiota, composed of pro-and anti-inflammatory microbes, has an essential
role in maintaining gut homeostasis and functionality. An overly hygienic lifestyle …

Bifidobacteria represent one of the dominant microbial groups that occur in the gut of various
animals, being particularly prevalent during the suckling period of humans and other …

Live bacteria (such as probiotics) have long been used to modulate gut microbiota and
human physiology, but their colonization is mostly transient. Conceptual understanding of …

The gut microbiome has an important role in infant health and development. We
characterized the fecal microbiome and metabolome of 222 young children in Dhaka …

The infant intestinal microbiota is often colonized by two subspecies of Bifidobacterium
longum: subsp. infantis (B. infantis) and subsp. longum (B. longum). Competitive growth of B …

Members of the genus Bifidobacterium, of which the majority have been isolated as gut
commensals, are Gram-positive, non-motile, saccharolytic, non-sporulating, anaerobic …

Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) are non-digestible oligosaccharides characterized by a mix
of structures that vary in their degree of polymerization (DP) and glycosidic linkage between …

Bifidobacteria are one of the major components in human microbiota that are suggested to
function in maintaining human health. The colonization and cell number of Bifidobacterium …

Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum represents one of the most prevalent bifidobacterial
species in the infant, adult and elderly (human) gut. In the current study, we performed a …

Members of the genus Bifidobacterium include gut commensals that are particularly
abundant among the microbial communities residing in the gut of healthy breast-fed infants …