The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine against tuberculosis can elicit a good response in neonates. Infants who are exposed to HIV but are uninfected display an altered immunity to vaccination.

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Supplementing breastfed infants with activated Bifidobacterium infantis (B. infantis) bacteria had a positive impact on babies' gut microbes for up to a year, according to a recent study.

In recent years, scientists have learned that the key beneficial infant gut bacterium Bifidobacterium infantis is disappearing from infants in high-resource areas such as the U.S. and Europe. Now, a ...

B. infantis EVC001 demonstrates unique ability to improve metabolism of both free and protein-bound glycans from human milk in vivo "We are thrilled to see that the earlier in vitro work on this ...

Research into the gut microbiome suggests that the ‘generational loss’ of a specific variety of beneficial bacteria - B. infantis - in the infant gut could increase the risk for a range of health ...

DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 27, 2020 - While an infant's genes distinguish her from other newborns, a new peer-reviewed study reports that specific genes of a particular infant gut bacterium determine its ...