Changes in the intestinal microbiota from adulthood through to old age

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2012, Pages 44-46

  O'Toole, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Elderly; Inflammation; Intestine; Metagenome; Microbiota

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; METABOLOMICS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SENESCENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861653143     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03867.x     Document Type: Article

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