Article
A Protocol for Extraction of Infective Viromes Suitable for Metagenomics Sequencing from Low Volume Fecal Samples
2019-06-13
Abstract excerpt
The human gut microbiome (GM) plays an important role in human health and diseases. However, while substantial progress has been made in understanding the role of bacterial inhabitants of the gut, much less is known regarding the viral component of the GM. Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses attacking specific host bacteria and likely play important roles in shaping the GM. Although metagenomic approaches have led...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c0849c67-3833-5a49-b16f-a9388d1a4468
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints201906.0125.v1
