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Bifidobacteria are among the first bacteria to colonize the intestine in newborns, and are transmitted from the mother during birth and breastfeeding.   Italian researchers have demonstrated precisely that by describing this bacterial group in 25 mother-child pairs. The genus Bifidobacter...

American researchers have recently provided the medical community with a genuine directory of the cutaneous microbiota of preterm infants. They have described its composition and evolution over the first four weeks of life. The basis for this work is the fact that severe infections occurring in thes...