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The biodiversity and composition of the dominant fecal microbiota in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Mar 2013
Sha Sumei, Xu Bin, Wang Xin, Zhang Yongguo, Wang Honghong, Kong Xiangyun, Zhu Hongwu, Wu Kaichun
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Clinical and experimental observations in animal models indicate that intestinal commensal bacteria are involved in the initiation and amplification of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). As the majority of colonic bacteria cannot be identified by culture techniques, the aim of this study was to use sequence-based methods to investigate and characterize the composition of the dominant fecal microbiota in both...
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