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Disease phenotype and genotype are associated with shifts in intestinal-associated microbiota in inflammatory bowel diseases.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 Jan 2011
Frank Daniel N, Robertson Charles E, Hamm Christina M, Kpadeh Zegbeh, Zhang Tianyi, Chen Hongyan, Zhu Wei, Sartor R Balfour, Boedeker Edgar C, Harpaz Noam, Pace Norman R, Li Ellen
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BACKGROUND: Abnormal host-microbe interactions are implicated in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases. Previous 16S rRNA sequence analysis of intestinal tissues demonstrated that a subset of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) samples exhibited altered intestinal-associated microbial compositions characterized by depletion of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes (particularly Clostridium taxa). We...
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