Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Maternal carriage of Prevotella during pregnancy associates with protection against food allergy in the offspring

  • Peter J. Vuillermin,
  • Martin O’Hely,
  • Fiona Collier,
  • Katrina J. Allen,
  • Mimi L. K. Tang,
  • Leonard C. Harrison,
  • John B. Carlin,
  • Richard Saffery,
  • Sarath Ranganathan,
  • Peter D. Sly,
  • Lawrence Gray,
  • John Molloy,
  • Angela Pezic,
  • Michael Conlon,
  • David Topping,
  • Karen Nelson,
  • Charles R. Mackay,
  • Laurence Macia,
  • Jennifer Koplin,
  • Samantha L. Dawson,
  • Margarita Moreno-Betancur,
  • Anne-Louise Ponsonby,
  • the J. Craig Venter Institute,
  • the BIS Investigator Group

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14552-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Incidence of food allergy in westernized populations is associated with low abundance of Prevotella. Here, the authors analyse the microbiome of a mother-infant prebirth cohort and find that maternal carriage, but not infant carriage, of P. copri during pregnancy predicts the absence of food allergy in the offspring.