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Reduction in diversity of the colonic mucosa associated bacterial microflora in patients with active inflammatory bowel disease.
Gut - 1 May 2004
Ott S J, Musfeldt M, Wenderoth D F, Hampe J, Brant O, Fölsch U R, Timmis K N, Schreiber S
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The intestinal bacterial microflora plays an important role in the aetiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). As most of the colonic bacteria cannot be identified by culture techniques, genomic technology can be used for analysis of the composition of the microflora. PATI...
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