The Bern Birth Cohort (BeBiCo) to study the development of the infant intestinal microbiota in a high-resource setting in Switzerland: rationale, design, and methods

• Main Authors: Luca Cecchini (Author), Colette Barmaz (Author), Maria José Coloma Cea (Author), Hannah Baeschlin (Author), Julian Etter (Author), Stefanie Netzer (Author), Leonie Bregy (Author), Dmitrij Marchukov (Author), Nerea Fernandez Trigo (Author), Rachel Meier (Author), Jasmin Hirschi (Author), Jacqueline Wyss (Author), Andrina Wick (Author), Joelle Zingg (Author), Sandro Christensen (Author), Anda-Petronela Radan (Author), Annina Etter (Author), Martin Müller (Author), Michael Kaess (Author), Daniel Surbek (Author), Bahtiyar Yilmaz (Author), Andrew J. Macpherson (Author), Christiane Sokollik (Author), Benjamin Misselwitz (Author), Stephanie C. Ganal-Vonarburg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Microbiota composition is fundamental to human health with the intestinal microbiota undergoing critical changes within the first two years of life. The developing intestinal microbiota is shaped by maternal seeding, breast milk and its complex constituents, other nutrients, and...