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To assess how anthroposophic and farm lifestyles influence the diversity and composition of gut microbiota in children.

February 10, 2007Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyOpen Access

Molecular Fingerprinting of the Fecal Microbiota of Children Raised According to Different Lifestyles

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JDJohan DicksvedAnimal Welfare Institute HFHelen FlöistrupKarolinska Institutet ABAnna BergströmKarolinska Institutet

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A population-based study reveals lifestyle-dependent gut microbiota diversity in children, indicating that anthroposophic and farm environments distinctly shape bacterial colonization.

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To assess how anthroposophic and farm lifestyles influence the diversity and composition of gut microbiota in children.
Assessed fecal samples from 90 children across three European countries representing anthroposophic, farm, and control lifestyles.
Used terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) to profile bacterial communities and calculate microbial richness and evenness.
Applied specific primers targeting the Lactobacillus-like community to evaluate lactic acid bacteria subpopulations.
Children adhering to an anthroposophic lifestyle demonstrated significantly higher fecal microbial diversity than farm children, who in turn exhibited lower diversity than control groups.
Substantial differences occurred across lifestyle groups in lactic acid bacteria subpopulations, including dominance by an uncultivated species in certain children.

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Dicksved et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a967581a45595e5080e23e7 https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02223-06

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A population-based study reveals lifestyle-dependent gut microbiota diversity in children, indicating that anthroposophic and farm environments distinctly shape bacterial colonization.

Molecular Fingerprinting of the Fecal Microbiota of Children Raised According to Different Lifestyles

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