Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Prenatal dietary supplements influence the infant airway microbiota in a randomized factorial clinical trial

  • Mathis H. Hjelmsø,
  • Shiraz A. Shah,
  • Jonathan Thorsen,
  • Morten Rasmussen,
  • Gisle Vestergaard,
  • Martin S. Mortensen,
  • Asker Brejnrod,
  • Susanne Brix,
  • Bo Chawes,
  • Klaus Bønnelykke,
  • Søren J. Sørensen,
  • Jakob Stokholm,
  • Hans Bisgaard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14308-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, the authors present the results of a mother–child cohort randomized clinical trial of n-3 LCPUFA and vitamin D maternal supplementation, finding an association between supplement-induced microbiota changes in infant airways at age 1-month but not the infant fecal or maternal vaginal microbiome.