Ethnic and diet-related differences in the healthy infant microbiome

BackgroundThe infant gut is rapidly colonized by microorganisms soon after birth, and the composition of the microbiota is dynamic in the first year of life. Although a stable microbiome may not be established until 1 to 3 years after birth, the infant gut microbiota appears to be an important predictor of health outcomes in later life.MethodsWe obtained stool at one year of age from 173 white Caucasian and 182 South Asian infants from two …