Rectal swabs for analysis of the intestinal microbiota

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Budding, Andries E ^a   Grasman, Matthijs E ^a   Eck, Anat ^a   Bogaards, Johannes A ^a   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^a   Van Bodegraven, Adriaan A ^a,b   Savelkoul, Paul H M ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE EXAMINATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; RECTAL SWAB; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PROCEDURES;

FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALE; MICROBIOTA; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84904251617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101344     Document Type: Article

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