The ancestral and industrialized gut microbiota and implications for human health

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 383-390

  Sonnenburg, Erica D ^a   Sonnenburg, Justin L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ENGRAFTMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HEALTH; HOST MICROBE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MICROFLORA;

CHRONIC DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; HEALTH; HUMANS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 85065798212     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41579-019-0191-8     Document Type: Article

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