The human gut microbiome: are we our enterotypes?

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Blood groups, finger prints, iris scans and DNA bar codes are several ways to distinguish or identify individual humans. According to Arumugam and colleagues (2011) we can now also be distinguished by the microbial communities in our faeces, our ‘enterotypes’. The human gut is one of the most densely populated ecosystems known, and although this ecosystem contains members of the three domains of life – bacteria,...

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