Mother-to-Infant Transmission of Intestinal Bifidobacterial Strains Has an Impact on the Early Development of Vaginally Delivered Infant's Microbiota

• Hiroshi Makino ,

  * E-mail: hiroshi-makino@yakult.co.jp

  Affiliation Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akira Kushiro,

  Affiliation Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Eiji Ishikawa,

  Affiliation Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Hiroyuki Kubota,

  Affiliations Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan, Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology, ESV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium

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• Agata Gawad,

  Affiliation Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology, ESV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium

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• Takafumi Sakai,

  Affiliation Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kenji Oishi,

  Affiliations Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan, Yakult Honsha European Research Center for Microbiology, ESV, Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium

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• Rocio Martin,

  Affiliation Danone Research, Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Kaouther Ben-Amor,

  Affiliation Danone Research, Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Singapore

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• Jan Knol,

  Affiliations Danone Research, Centre for Specialised Nutrition, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Laboratory of Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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• Ryuichiro Tanaka

  Affiliation Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, Tokyo, Japan

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