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Gut microbiota and gastrointestinal health: current concepts and future directions
20 Dec 2012
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BACKGROUND: The microbial community of the human gut - the enteric microbiota - plays a critical role in functions that sustain health and is a positive asset in host defenses. In recent years, our understanding of this so-called human 'super organism' has advanced, following characterization of fecal metagenomes which identified three core bacterial enterotypes, and based on basic and clinical research into the...
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