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Intraspecies Genomic Diversity and Long-Term Persistence of Bifidobacterium longum.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Chaplin Andrei V, Efimov Boris A, Smeianov Vladimir V, Kafarskaia Lyudmila I, Pikina Alla P, Shkoporov Andrei N
Abstract excerpt
Members of genus Bifidobacterium are Gram-positive bacteria, representing a large part of the human infant microbiota and moderately common in adults. However, our knowledge about their diversity, intraspecific phylogeny and long-term persistence in humans is still limited. Bifidobacterium longum is generally considered to be the most common and prevalent species in the intestinal microbiota. In this work we...
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