The human microbiome in early life: implications to health and disease / edited by Omry Koren, Samuli Rautava. -- London, United Kingdom : Academic Press, [2021]. – (63.16/H918h)

Contents

List of contributors
Introduction
I  Pregnancy and fetal life
1. The microbiome in a healthy pregnancy
2. The microbiome and pregnancy complications
3. Microbial signatures of preterm birth
4. Prenatal origins of the infant gut microbiome
II  Birth - entering the world dominated by microbes
5. Impact of delivery mode in early life microbiome and risk of disease
6. Early-life antibiotic exposure, the gut microbiome, and disease in later life.
7. The intestinal microbiome of preterm infants
III  Infancy - establishment of the microbiome and healthy development
8. The compositional development of the microbiome in early life
9. Microbes, human milk, and prebiotics
10. The early gut microbiome and the risk of chronic disease
IV  Modifying early microbial contact
11. Postbiotics: defining the impact of inactivated microbes and their metabolites on promotion of health
12. Modification of the gut microbiome in an attempt to reduce the risk of child disease: Clinical data from prenatal interventions
13. Clinical data from postnatal interventions
Index