It is culturally and religiously important for Muslim women to breastfeed their infants shortly after birth. In fact, soon after the delivery of a child, many Muslim women are given ratb, which is a kind of date
Since bifidobacteria were first isolated from the faeces of breastfed infants by Henry Tissier from the Pasteur Institute in 1899 (Scardovi and Trovatelli, 1969; Tissier, 1900; Yaeshima and Fujisawa, 1992), they have come to be regarded as one of the most important bacterial groups associated...