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During this time, extensive communication between microbiota and the host immune system contributes to health status later in life. Although there are many reported associations between microbiota compositional alterations and disease in adults, less is known about how microbiome development is altered in pediatric diseases. One pediatric disease linked to altered gut microbiota composition is cystic fibrosis (CF), a multi-organ genetic disease involving impaired chloride secretion across epithelia and heightened inflammation both in the gut and at other body sites. Here, we use shotgun metagenomics to profile the strain-level composition and developmental dynamics of the infant fecal microbiota from several CF and non-CF longitudinal cohorts spanning from birth to greater than 36 months of life. We identify a set of keystone species that define microbiota development in early life in non-CF infants but are missing or decreased in relative abundance in infants with CF, resulting in a delayed pattern of microbiota maturation, persistent entrenchment in a transitional developmental phase, and subsequent failure to attain an adult-like stable microbiota. Delayed maturation is strongly associated with cumulative antibiotic treatments, and we also detect the increased relative abundance of oral-derived bacteria and higher levels of fungi in infants with CF, features that are associated with decreased gut bacterial density. 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Our findings identify conserved age-diagnostic species in the non-CF infant microbiome that are diminished in abundance in CF counterparts that instead exhibit an enrichment of oral-derived bacteria and fungi associated with antibiotic exposure. 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