Risk of infant gastrointestinal tract exposure to pathogenic viruses of vaginal origin during delivery

Both the gut microbiome and virome of early life have always drawn research attention because they are strongly associated with the health status of an individual in the future. The gut virome, consisting of phages and eukaryotic viruses, directly or indirectly affects infant and child health. As the dominant component in gut virome, phages shape the microbiota in early life by preying on bacteria.

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