Summary of PI Amanda Thompson’s study on immune development and gut microbiome in Galapagos
Introduction: GSC Researcher Amanda Thompson, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with three other collaborators, published an article about human health in Galapagos in the American Journal of Human Biology on December 28th, 2018. The title of the article is “Pathways linking caesarean delivery to early health in a dual burden context: Immune development and the gut microbiome in infants and children from Galapagos, Ecuador.” This publication is based on two studies coordinated with the Hospital Oskar Jandl and the Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health.
