Development of the gut microbiota during early life in premature and term infants.

"availability of data and materials the dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is available in the european nucleotide archive repository accession number prjeb23362 https://www ebi ac uk/ena/data/view/prjeb23362 . availability of data and materials the dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is available in the european nucleotide archive repository accession number prjeb23362"

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study ‘Defining the Intestinal Microbiota in Premature Infants’ (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01102738) was approved by West London Research Ethics Committee 2, United Kingdom (Reference number: 10/H0711/39). Parents gave written informed consent for their infant to participate in the study. The study ‘Development Of Respiratory Microbiota In Children’ was approved by Riverside Ethics Committee, London, UK (Reference number: 12/LO/1362). Parents gave written informed consent for their infant to participate in the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding The NeoM project has been funded by grants to JSK from The Winnicott Foundation (P26859) and Meningitis UK (P35505), and the DORMICe project funded by a grant to JSK from Micropathology Ltd. Funding bodies had no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript."