Matthew C. Hibberd

TL;DR: Identifying ingredients in complementary foods, consumed during the transition from exclusive milk feeding to a fully weaned state, that increase the representation and expressed beneficial functions of growth-promoting bacterial taxa in the developing microbiota could provide an effective, affordable, culturally acceptable, and sustainable approach to treatment.

TL;DR: The results suggest that micronutrient imbalances should be considered from the perspective of both the human host and the gut microbiota they possess, and that retinol treatment affected B. vulgatus fitness through the activity of the bacterial AcrAB-TolC efflux system.

TL;DR: A statistical workflow was developed to identify conserved bacterial taxon-taxon covariance in the gut communities of healthy members of a Bangladeshi birth cohort who provided fecal samples monthly, suggesting that the ecogroup network is a conserved general feature of microbiota organization.

TL;DR: More than 30 million children worldwide have moderate acute malnutrition as discussed by the authors, and current treatments have limited effectiveness, and much remains unknown about the pathogenesis of this malnourishment condition.

TL;DR: These results provide support for a causal relationship between growth stunting and components of the small intestinal microbiota and enteropathy and offer a rationale for developing therapies that target these microbial contributions to EED.