Health Disparities and the Microbiome

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 847-850

  Findley, Keisha ^a   Williams, David R ^b   Grice, Elizabeth A ^c   Bonham, Vence L ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

environment; health disparities; interdisciplinary studies; microbiome

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOST; HUMAN; HYGIENE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTESTINE FLORA; LIFESTYLE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PREDICTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; VAGINITIS; DISEASES; HEALTH STATUS; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

DISEASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES; MICROBIOTA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84994524970     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.08.001     Document Type: Note

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