"Vaginal seeding" of infants born by caesarean section

BMJ. 2016 Feb 23:352:i227. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i227.

Authors

Aubrey J Cunnington¹, Kathleen Sim², Aniko Deierl³, J Simon Kroll², Eimear Brannigan⁴, Jonathan Darby⁵

Affiliations

¹ Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London W2 1PG, UK a.cunnington@imperial.ac.uk.
² Section of Paediatrics, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London W2 1PG, UK.
³ St Mary's Hospital, London, UK.
⁴ Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
⁵ St Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia.

PMID: 26906151
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i227

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Cesarean Section*
Female
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Microbiota / physiology*
Pregnancy
Vagina / microbiology*

Grants and funding

MR/L006529/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom