2.1. Succession of the Skin Microbiota of Preterm Infants in Both Control and Intervention Infants
There were substantial changes in the composition of the skin microbiome over the first three weeks of life (The dissimilarity between microbial communities at different body sites and ages at sampling was assessed with non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) using the Bray–Curtis dissimilarity index. Between-body-site distances were greater than within-site distances (PERMANOVA, Using qPCR for 