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Effect of room temperature transport vials on DNA quality and phylogenetic composition of faecal microbiota of elderly adults and infants

BACKGROUND: Alterations in intestinal microbiota have been correlated with a growing number of diseases. Investigating the faecal microbiota is widely used as a non-invasive and ethically simple proxy for intestinal biopsies. There is an urgent need for collection and transport media that would allo...

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Autores principales: Hill, Cian J., Brown, Jillian R. M., Lynch, Denise B., Jeffery, Ian B., Ryan, C. Anthony, Ross, R. Paul, Stanton, Catherine, O’Toole, Paul W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27160322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-016-0164-3