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November 16, 2025Gut MicrobesOpen Access

The triad of maternal gut-breast milk-infant gut microbial transmission in early life as a critical pathway for microbial inheritance

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YDYanli DuJCJing ChengRXRuixia Xie

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Longitudinal sampling shows infant gut microbiota is shaped by maternal gut-breast milk transmission, highlighting microbial diversity implications.

Key Points

  • To explore the pathways of maternal gut microbiota transmission to the infant gut via breast milk during early life.
  • Conducted longitudinal microbiota sampling from 30 mother-infant pairs over one month.
  • Analyzed colostrum and gut samples from postpartum mothers separated from their infants.
  • Used 16S RNA sequencing to evaluate microbial diversity and correlations across lactation stages.
  • Exclusively breastfed infants showed high gut microbial diversity on the first day.
  • Identified maternal gut-breast milk-infant gut transfer as critical for microbial inheritance.
  • Bifidobacteria was highlighted as a compelling example of microbial transfer.

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Du et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692509ffc0ce034ddc3532f9https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2025.2574928
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