Stability of the human faecal microbiome in a cohort of adult men

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 347-355

  Mehta, Raaj S ^a   Abu Ali, Galeb S ^b,c   Drew, David A ^a   Lloyd Price, Jason ^b,c   Subramanian, Ayshwarya ^b,c   Lochhead, Paul ^a   Joshi, Amit D ^a   Ivey, Kerry L ^b,d   Khalili, Hamed ^a   Brown, Gordon T ^a   Dulong, Casey ^b   Song, Mingyang ^a   Nguyen, Long H ^a   Mallick, Himel ^b,c   Rimm, Eric B ^b,e   Izard, Jacques ^f   Huttenhower, Curtis ^b,c   Chan, Andrew T ^a,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRUCTURES; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES MICROFLORA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METAGENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAXONOMY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VALIDATION STUDY; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; FECES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; COHORT STUDIES; FECES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85040646017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41564-017-0096-0     Document Type: Article

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