Can breastfeeding promote an antibiotic-resilient microbiome?

Jakob Stokholm; Jonathan Thorsen

doi:10.1016/j.medj.2023.01.002

Can breastfeeding promote an antibiotic-resilient microbiome?

Med. 2023 Feb 10;4(2):67-68. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2023.01.002.

Authors

Jakob Stokholm¹, Jonathan Thorsen²

Affiliations

¹ COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark. Electronic address: stokholm@copsac.com.
² COPSAC, Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood, Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 36773598
DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2023.01.002

Abstract

In this issue of Med, Dai, Petersen, and colleagues report that the antibiotic-associated risk of asthma in children may be mitigated by breastfeeding in early life. They find that breastfeeding promotes a specific microbiome composition responsible for this resilience, mainly driven by the bacterium Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Bifidobacterium longum*
Breast Feeding
Child
Female
Humans
Microbiota*