Gut metagenome of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit

The infant gut microbiome is thought to play a key role in developing metabolic and immunologic pathways. Antibiotics have been shown to disrupt the human microbiome, but the impact they have on infants during this key window of development remains poorly understood. Through this study we further characterize the effect antibiotics have on the gut microbiome of infants by looking at metagenomic sequencing data over time.