Influence of delivery and feeding mode in oral fungi colonization – a systematic review

Authors:

Maria Joao Azevedo1,2,3,4, Maria de Lurdes Pereira1,5, Ricardo Araujo2,3,6, Carla Ramalho3,7,8, Egija Zaura4 and Benedita Sampaio-Maia1,2,3

doi: 10.15698/mic2020.02.706
Volume 7, pp. 36 to 45, published 07/01/2020.

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Affiliations:

1 Faculdade de Medicina Dentária, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

2 INEB – Instituto Nacional de Engenharia Biomédica, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

3 i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

4 Academic Center for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

5 EpiUnit- Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto.

6 Dept. Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University of South Australia.

7 Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

8 Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal.

Keywords: 

oral fungi, delivery mode, feeding mode, oral colonization, yeasts, Candida, mycobiome

Corresponding Author(s):

Benedita Sampaio-Maia, Phone: +351 22 090 1100; bmaia@fmd.up.pt

Conflict of interest statement:

The authors certify that they have no affiliations with or in-volvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest or non-financial interest in the subject matter or ma-terials discussed in this manuscript.

Please cite this article as:

Maria Joao Azevedo, Maria de Lurdes Pereira, Ricardo Araujo, Carla Ramalho, Egija Zaura and Benedita Sampaio-Maia (2020). Influence of delivery and feeding mode in oral fungi colonization – a systematic review. Microbial Cell 7(2): 36-45. doi: 10.15698/mic2020.02.706

© 2020 Azevedo et al. This is an open-access article released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduc-tion in any medium, provided the original author and source are acknowledged.

Abstract:

Postnatal acquisition of microorganisms from maternal and environmental sources contributes to the child microbiome development. Several studies showed that the mode of delivery and breastfeeding may have impact on the oral bacterial colonization, however, the influence on oral fungal colonization is still unknown. We performed a systematic literature review on mother to child oral fungi transmission, namely regarding the association between the mode of delivery and breastfeeding in oral yeast colonization. Our analysis revealed no significant differences between the oral mycobiome of breastfed and bottle-fed children. As for the delivery mode, the majority of studies found a relation between fungal colonization and vaginal delivery. Candida albicans was the most commonly isolated fungi species. Our analysis suggests that maternal breastfeeding does not seem to influence oral mycology, but vaginal delivery appears to promote oral yeast colonization in early life.