New Book: Microbiota in Health and Disease: From Pregnancy to Childhood

In 2017, Editors Pamela D. Browne, Eric Claassen and Michael D. Cabana published a book about the Microbiota in health and disease: from pregnancy to childhood in Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Microbiota in health and disease: from pregnancy to childhood aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview in the field of infant and child microbiota and their role in health, disease and prevention. Featuring VIII parts and 17 chapters, it summarized our current knowledge on The ‘healthy’ gut infant microbiota, the Factors influencing the gut microbiota development, the Human microbiota and physiological systems, the Gut microbiota: its role in pediatric diseases, the From Bowel to Infant Behaviour, the Consequences of dysbiosis outside the gut, the Assessment of the gut microbiota, and on Manipulating the gut microbiota.

In the Chapter 4, renowned clinical-experimental experts Dr. Kozyrskyj together with Dr. Bridgman and Dr. M.H. Tun discussed The impact of birth and postnatal medical interventions on infant gut microbiota. This resource is available here, an overview of the book is available here and the book can be purchased here.