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Interactions and competition within the microbial community of the human colon: links between diet and health
28 Mar 2007
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The microbiota of the human intestinal tract play an important role in health, in particular by mediating many of the effects of diet upon gut health. Surveys of 16S rRNA sequence diversity in the human colon have emphasized the low proportion of sequences that match cultured bacterial species. This may reflect limited recent effort on cultivation rather than inherent unculturability, however, as anaerobic...
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