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. 1981 Jun;86(3):285–293. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400069035

Diet and the faecal microflora of infants, children and adults in rural Nigeria and urban U.K.

A M Tomkins, A K Bradley, S Oswald, B S Drasar
PMCID: PMC2133979  PMID: 7240732

Abstract

The faecal microflora of breast-fed infants, weaned children and adults has been examined in rural Nigeria and urban U.K. Breast-fed infants had a similar anaerobic flora dominated by bifidobacteria but bacteroides were isolated in less than a quarter of either community. Weaned children in both communities had greater numbers of bacteroides and clostridia than breast-fed infants. Even higher numbers of bacteroides and clostridia were present in U.K. adults but not in Nigerian adults. Numbers of bacteroides and clostridia were greater in a group of Nigerian infants drinking cow's milk than those receiving breast milk alone and lower in a group of weaned children with diarrhoea compared with uninfected subjects.

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