@article{b2f7a108a5e94672bac7132a030ab525,
title = "Metagenomics and development of the gut microbiota in infants",
abstract = "The establishment of a balanced intestinal microbiota is essential for numerous aspects of human health, yet the microbial colonization of the gastrointestinal tract of infants is both complex and highly variable among individuals. In addition, the gastrointestinal tract microbiota is often exposed to antibiotics, and may be an important reservoir of resistant strains and of transferable resistance genes from early infancy. We are investigating by means of diverse metagenomic approaches several areas of microbiota development in infants, including the deployment of functional capabilities at the community level, the presence of antibiotic resistances and the population dynamics of the most abundant genera.",
keywords = "Antibiotics, Faeces, Intestinal microbiota, Meconium, Metagenomics",
author = "Y. Vall{\'e}s and M.J. Gosalbes and \{de Vries\}, \{Lisbeth Elvira\} and J.J. Abell{\'a}n and M.P Francino",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Ferran Ballester and the INMA project (Infancia y Medio Ambiente) for providing meconium samples, Loreto Ferr{\'u}s for her laboratory work, Nuria Jim{\'e}nez, Ll{\'u}cia Mart{\'i}nez and Alejandro Artacho for pyrosequencing and bioinformatic processing of sequence data at CSISP, and Feng Chen and his Sequencing Technology Group for pyrosequencing and data processing at the DOE Joint Genome Institute. Financial support was received from the US National Institutes of Health (project R0lDK066288) and the Spanish MICINN (project SAF2009-13032-C02-02 and project CSD2009-00006 of the CONSOLIDER program).",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03876.x",
language = "English",
volume = "18",
pages = "21--26",
journal = "Clinical Microbiology and Infection",
issn = "1469-0691",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "SUPPL. 4",
}