Composition of the adult digestive tract bacterial microbiome based on seven mouth surfaces, tonsils, throat and stool samples
Open Access
- 1 January 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Genome Biology
- Vol. 13 (6), R42
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2012-13-6-r42
Abstract
To understand the relationship between our bacterial microbiome and health, it is essential to define the microbiome in the absence of disease. The digestive tract includes diverse habitats and hosts the human body's greatest bacterial density. We describe the bacterial community composition of ten digestive tract sites from more than 200 normal adults enrolled in the Human Microbiome Project, and metagenomically determined metabolic potentials of four representative sites.Keywords
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