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Diversity of the human gastrointestinal tract microbiota revisited
17 Jul 2007
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Since the early days of microbiology, more than a century ago, representatives of over 400 different microbial species have been isolated and fully characterized from human gastrointestinal samples. However, during the past decade molecular ecological studies based on ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences have revealed that cultivation has been able only to access a small fraction of the microbial diversity within the...
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