What are the consequences of the disappearing human microbiota?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 887-894

  Blaser, Martin J ^a   Falkow, Stanley ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP3;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 70449703996     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2245     Document Type: Article

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