Bifidobacterium breve VPro 52 and Improved Gut Microbiome Composition

• Digestion of Human Milk Oligosaccharides by Bifidobacterium breve in the Premature Infant

  • 2017-10
  • Clinical Trial · n = 29
  • Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition 65(4)
  • • M. Underwood
    • Jasmine C C Davis
    • K. Kalanetra
    • S. Gehlot
    • S. Patole
    • D. Tancredi
    • D. Mills
    • C. Lebrilla
    • K. Simmer

  • PubMed: 28945208
  • DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0000000000001590

  6 Insights on

  • Improved Gut Microbiome Composition

  • Moderate evidence

  "'Responders' received milk with higher percentages of fucosylated HMOs and had higher percentages of bifidobacteria and lower percentages of Enterobacteriaceae in their feces than 'nonresponders.' Several individual HMOs in the milk were associated with changes in fecal bifidobacteria over time."

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate