Bifidobacterium infantis MAK22B04I and Reduced Enteric Virus Infection Rates

• Intestinal Colonization With Bifidobacterium longum Subspecies Is Associated With Length at Birth, Exclusive Breastfeeding, and Decreased Risk of Enteric Virus Infections, but Not With Histo-Blood Group Antigens, Oral Vaccine Response or Later Growth in Three Birth Cohorts

  • 2022-02-16
  • Observational
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics 10
  • • Josh M. Colston
    • M. Taniuchi
    • Tahmina Ahmed
    • Tania Ferdousi
    • F. Kabir
    • E. Mduma
    • R. Nshama
    • N. Iqbal
    • R. Haque
    • T. Ahmed
    • Zulfiqar Ali Bhutta
    • M. Kosek
    • J. Platts-Mills

  • PubMed: 35252058
  • DOI: 10.3389/fped.2022.804798

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Enteric Virus Infection Rates

  • Low evidence
  • Infants

  B. infantis colonization was associated with fewer viral infections and small reductions in the risk of rotavirus and sapovirus infections, but not reduced overall diarrheal disease risk.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small