Harnessing the power of the human microbiome

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6125-6126

  Blaser, Martin J ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; HOST; HUMAN; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLORA;

FINGERS; HUMANS; METAGENOME; SKIN;

EID: 77950907532     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002112107     Document Type: Note

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