Bifidobacterium infantis VPro 53 and Improved Gut Microbiota Composition

• Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis: champion colonizer of the infant gut

  • 2014-10-10
  • Pediatric Research 77(1-2)
  • • M. Underwood
    • J. German
    • C. Lebrilla
    • D. Mills

  • PubMed: 25303277
  • DOI: 10.1038/pr.2014.156

  16 Insights on

  • Improved Gut Microbiota Composition

  • Moderate evidence
  • Highly Cited
  • Rigorous Journal

  Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis (B. infantis) is unique among gut bacteria in its prodigious capacity to digest and consume any human milk oligosaccharide structure, the result of a large repertoire of bacterial genes encoding an array of glycosidases and oligosaccharide transporters not found in other bacterial species.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large