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Children who grow up with pets or on farms may develop allergies at lower rates because their gut microbiome develops with more anaerobic commensals, per fecal analysis in small cohort study

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Gut microbiota markers in early childhood are linked to farm living, pets in household and allergy

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Children who grow up with pets or on farms may develop allergies at lower rates because their gut microbiome develops with more anaerobic commensals, per fecal analysis in small cohort study.

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Children who grow up with pets or on farms may develop allergies at lower rates because their gut microbiome develops with more anaerobic commensals, per fecal analysis in small cohort study

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0313078

Article Title: Gut microbiota markers in early childhood are linked to farm living, pets in household and allergy

Author Countries: Sweden

Funding: This work was supported by the Region Västra Götaland (agreement concerning medical research and education – ALF), https://www.alfvastragotaland.se [ALFGBG966243] [ALFGBG720181] (IA); the Swedish Medical Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), https://www.vr.se/ [K98-06X-12612-01A] (AW); and the Health & Medical Care Committee of the Region Västra Götaland (Regional Research & Development funds Västra Götaland region) https://www.researchweb.org/is/vgregion/ [grant no. VGFOUREG-12007] (IA). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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