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SUBMITTER: Scanlan PD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2408590 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC microbiology 20080520
<h4>Background</h4>The incidence and diversity of human methanogens are insufficiently characterised in the gastrointestinal tract of both health and disease. A PCR and clone library methodology targeting the mcrA gene was adopted to facilitate the two-fold aim of surveying the relative incidence of methanogens in health and disease groups and also to provide an overview of methanogen diversity in the human gastrointestinal tract.<h4>Results</h4>DNA faecal extracts (207 in total) from a group of ...[more]