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Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop

To augment capacity-building for microbiome and probiotic research in Africa, a workshop was held in Nairobi, Kenya, at which researchers discussed human, animal, insect, and agricultural microbiome and probiotics/prebiotics topics. Five recommendations were made to promote future basic and translat...

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Autores principales: Reid, Gregor, Nduti, Nicholas, Sybesma, Wilbert, Kort, Remco, Kollmann, Tobias R, Adam, Rod, Boga, Hamadi, Brown, Eric M, Einerhand, Alexandra, El-Nezami, Hani, Gloor, Gregory B, Kavere, Irene I, Lindahl, Johanna, Manges, Amee, Mamo, Wondu, Martin, Rocio, McMillan, Amy, Obiero, Jael, Ochieng’, Pamela A, Onyango, Arnold, Rulisa, Stephen, Salminen, Eeva, Salminen, Seppo, Sije, Antony, Swann, Jonathan R, van Treuren, William, Waweru, Daniel, Kemp, Steve J
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24739094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-2618-2-12
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author Reid, Gregor
Nduti, Nicholas
Sybesma, Wilbert
Kort, Remco
Kollmann, Tobias R
Adam, Rod
Boga, Hamadi
Brown, Eric M
Einerhand, Alexandra
El-Nezami, Hani
Gloor, Gregory B
Kavere, Irene I
Lindahl, Johanna
Manges, Amee
Mamo, Wondu
Martin, Rocio
McMillan, Amy
Obiero, Jael
Ochieng’, Pamela A
Onyango, Arnold
Rulisa, Stephen
Salminen, Eeva
Salminen, Seppo
Sije, Antony
Swann, Jonathan R
van Treuren, William
Waweru, Daniel
Kemp, Steve J
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Nduti, Nicholas
Sybesma, Wilbert
Kort, Remco
Kollmann, Tobias R
Adam, Rod
Boga, Hamadi
Brown, Eric M
Einerhand, Alexandra
El-Nezami, Hani
Gloor, Gregory B
Kavere, Irene I
Lindahl, Johanna
Manges, Amee
Mamo, Wondu
Martin, Rocio
McMillan, Amy
Obiero, Jael
Ochieng’, Pamela A
Onyango, Arnold
Rulisa, Stephen
Salminen, Eeva
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Sije, Antony
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spelling pubmed-39969472014-04-24 Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop Reid, Gregor Nduti, Nicholas Sybesma, Wilbert Kort, Remco Kollmann, Tobias R Adam, Rod Boga, Hamadi Brown, Eric M Einerhand, Alexandra El-Nezami, Hani Gloor, Gregory B Kavere, Irene I Lindahl, Johanna Manges, Amee Mamo, Wondu Martin, Rocio McMillan, Amy Obiero, Jael Ochieng’, Pamela A Onyango, Arnold Rulisa, Stephen Salminen, Eeva Salminen, Seppo Sije, Antony Swann, Jonathan R van Treuren, William Waweru, Daniel Kemp, Steve J Microbiome Meeting Report To augment capacity-building for microbiome and probiotic research in Africa, a workshop was held in Nairobi, Kenya, at which researchers discussed human, animal, insect, and agricultural microbiome and probiotics/prebiotics topics. Five recommendations were made to promote future basic and translational research that benefits Africans. BioMed Central 2014-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3996947/ /pubmed/24739094 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-2618-2-12 Text en Copyright © 2014 Reid et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Reid, Gregor
Nduti, Nicholas
Sybesma, Wilbert
Kort, Remco
Kollmann, Tobias R
Adam, Rod
Boga, Hamadi
Brown, Eric M
Einerhand, Alexandra
El-Nezami, Hani
Gloor, Gregory B
Kavere, Irene I
Lindahl, Johanna
Manges, Amee
Mamo, Wondu
Martin, Rocio
McMillan, Amy
Obiero, Jael
Ochieng’, Pamela A
Onyango, Arnold
Rulisa, Stephen
Salminen, Eeva
Salminen, Seppo
Sije, Antony
Swann, Jonathan R
van Treuren, William
Waweru, Daniel
Kemp, Steve J
Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop
title Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop
title_full Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop
title_fullStr Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop
title_full_unstemmed Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop
title_short Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop
title_sort harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-saharan africa: recommendations from an african workshop
topic Meeting Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996947/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24739094
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-2618-2-12
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