Vaginal delivery provides skin colonization resistance from environmental microbes in the NICU

Affiliations

• ¹ Epithelial Therapeutics Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ² Clinical Microbiome Unit, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
• ³ Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.