Ascitic Microbiota Composition Is Correlated with Clinical Severity in Cirrhosis with Portal Hypertension

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rogers, Geraint B ^a   van der Gast, Christopher J ^b   Bruce, Kenneth D ^a   Marsh, Peter ^c   Collins, Jane E ^c   Sutton, Julian ^c   Wright, Mark ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROPIDIUM IODIDE; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID CYTOLOGY; BACTERIAL LOAD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROGNOSIS; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RNA GENE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCITES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884573540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074884     Document Type: Article

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