The gut microbiota

The Prokaryotes: Human Microbiology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3-24

  Kovatcheva Datchary, Petia ^a   Tremaroli, Valentina ^a   Bäckhed, Fredrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30144-5_87     Document Type: Chapter

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