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Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 17 Jan 2006
Bik Elisabeth M, Eckburg Paul B, Gill Steven R, Nelson Karen E, Purdom Elizabeth A, Francois Fritz, Perez-Perez Guillermo, Blaser Martin J, Relman David A
Abstract excerpt
The microbiota of the human stomach and the influence of Helicobacter pylori colonization on its composition remain largely unknown. We characterized bacterial diversity within the human gastric mucosa by using a small subunit 16S rDNA clone library approach and analyzed 1,833 sequences generated by broad-range bacterial PCR from 23 gastric endoscopic biopsy samples. A diverse community of 128 phylotypes was...
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