A Case Report published in MicrobiomeJ describes how microbes from a fecal microbiota transfer in a pregnant patient may propagate across generations. Read the paper:
The FMT treatment of the pregnant CDI patient reported here was successful and deemed necessary to ensure the health of both the patient and the unborn child. In addition to curing the patient, the procedure uniquely allowed us to investigate the potential cross-generational transfer of donor-derived microbiota from donor to patient and further to the infant.
Regarding the CDI, we observed substantial differences in the gut microbiota composition between the patient and the healthy donor. The gut microbiota in the patient pre-FMT was characterized by low alpha diversity (Fig.
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