Suddenly everyone is a microbiota specialist

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 581-582

  Boers, S A ^a   Jansen, R ^b   Hays, J P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Public Health Haarlem   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Bias; Metagenomics; Microbiome; Microbiota analysis; Microbiota profiling; Microbiota based results; PCR bias

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METAGENOMICS; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIST; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; PUBLICATIONS;

EID: 84981252418     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.05.002     Document Type: Note

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