The healthy human microbiome

Genome Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lloyd Price, Jason ^a,b   Abu Ali, Galeb ^a   Huttenhower, Curtis ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BOVINE MILK OLIGOSACCHARIDE; DNA; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HUMAN MILK OLIGOSACCHARIDE; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; RNA 16S; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BLASTOCYSTIS; BREAST MILK; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL FATE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DNA CONTENT; DYSBIOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; EUKARYOTE; FIRMICUTES; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HEALTHY MICROBIOME; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS; METAGENOME; METHANOBREVIBACTER SMITHII; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MICROFLORA; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA; GENETIC VARIATION; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84964478793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-016-0307-y     Document Type: Review

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