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16S rRNA Gene Sequencing as a Clinical Diagnostic Aid for Gastrointestinal-related Conditions
2016-10-31
Abstract excerpt
Accurate detection of the microorganisms underlying gut dysbiosis in the patient is critical to initiate the appropriate treatment. However, most clinical microbiology techniques used to detect gut bacteria were developed over a century ago and rely on culture-based approaches that are often laborious, unreliable, and subjective. Further, culturing does not scale well for multiple targets and detects only a minori...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 86d575be-4833-5258-a747-e038d49f9f10
- DOI
- 10.1101/084657
