Microbial composition of human appendices from patients following appendectomy

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Guinane, Caitriona M ^a,b   Tadrous, Amany ^c   Fouhy, Fiona ^b,c   Anthony Ryan, C ^c,d   Dempsey, Eugene M ^c,d   Murphy, Brendan ^c,d   Andrews, Emmet ^c   Cotter, Paul D ^a,b   Stanton, Catherine ^a,b   Paul Ross, R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TEAGASC FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^d Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDETES; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIA; GEMELLA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PARVIMONAS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84874616742     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00366-12     Document Type: Article

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