@article{cba66f79500c4db1a1ba4f181084cd86,
title = "Maternal Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Cesarean-Born Infants Rapidly Restores Normal Gut Microbial Development: A Proof-of-Concept Study",
abstract = "A proof-of-concept safety study shows that oral fecal transplantation can shift the microbiome composition of infants who are born via cesarean section to a profile that is more similar to those born via vaginal delivery.",
keywords = "cesarean section, clinical trial, colonization, early-life health, fecal microbiota transplantation, maternal seeding, microbiota development, newborn, selective outgrowth, vertical transmission",
author = "Katri Korpela and Otto Helve and Kaija-Leena Kolho and Terhi Saisto and Kirsi Skogberg and Evgenia Dikareva and Vedran Stefanovic and Anne Salonen and Sture Andersson and {de Vos}, {Willem M.}",
note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank the mothers and infants who participated in this study. This research was partly supported by grants 1297765 (to K.K.) and 1308255 (to W.M.d.V.) by the Academy of Finland , a grant from the Pediatric Research Foundation , Finland (to K.-L.K.), a special governmental subsidy to clinical research (to S.A.), Finska L{\"a}kares{\"a}llskapet (to S.A.), the Paulo Foundation (to A.S.), and SIAM Gravitation grant 024.002.002 and a Spinoza award of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (to W.M.d.V.). We are grateful to our research nurse, midwife Sirpa Nolvi, for skilled assistance. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Inc. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.047",
language = "English",
volume = "183",
pages = "324--334.e5",
journal = "Cell",
issn = "0092-8674",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "2",
}