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Global diversity in the human salivary microbiome.
Genome research - 1 Apr 2009
Nasidze Ivan, Li Jing, Quinque Dominique, Tang Kun, Stoneking Mark
Abstract excerpt
The human salivary microbiome may play a role in diseases of the oral cavity and interact with microbiomes from other parts of the human body (in particular, the intestinal tract), but little is known about normal variation in the salivary microbiome. We analyzed 14,115 partial ( approximately 500 bp) 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences from saliva samples from 120 healthy individuals (10 individuals from each of...
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