Phages in the human body

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue APR, 2017, Pages

  Navarro, Ferran ^a   Muniesa, Maite ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteriophages; Diagnosis; Homeostasis; Human biomes; Metagenomics; Virome

Indexed keywords

ART; ATTENTION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIOPHAGE; GENE TRANSFER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN;

EID: 85018302686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00566     Document Type: Short Survey

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