GAL and infection: Among the influencing infant and mother-related variables analyzed by non-metric multi-dimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis (gestational age, mode of delivery, parity, type of diet, gender, baby’s weight and BMI z score, antibiotic intake during pregnancy and/or exposure at the delivery day and neonate’s antibiotic intake and infections up to 12 months), gestational age and BMI z score at 6th month were significantly correlated with the NMDS ordination of the mothers based on Gal levels in MP (envfit R2 = 0.5267, p value = 0.019; envfit R2 = 0.6190, p value = 0.006, respectively) (Figure 2).