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The Rebirth of Culture in Microbiology through the Example of Culturomics To Study Human Gut Microbiota
1 Jan 2015
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Bacterial culture was the first method used to describe the human microbiota, but this method is considered outdated by many researchers. Metagenomics studies have since been applied to clinical microbiology; however, a "dark matter" of prokaryotes, which corresponds to a hole in our knowledge and includes minority bacterial populations, is not elucidated by these studies. By replicating the natural environment,...
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