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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |