Tracking strains in the microbiome: Insights from metagenomics and models

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Brito, Ilana L ^a   Alm, Eric J ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial genomics; Biological; Genotyping techniques; Metagenomics; Microbiome; Models; Strain diversity

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; BURKHOLDERIA DOLOSA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMENSAL; COMMENSAL TRANSMISSION; GENE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; METHANOBREVIBACTER SMITHII; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SEROVAR ENTERITIDIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84973514411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00712     Document Type: Short Survey

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