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SUBMITTER: Hunt KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3117882 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hunt Katherine M KM Foster James A JA Forney Larry J LJ Schütte Ursel M E UM Beck Daniel L DL Abdo Zaid Z Fox Lawrence K LK Williams Janet E JE McGuire Michelle K MK McGuire Mark A MA
PloS one 20110617 6
Recent investigations have demonstrated that human milk contains a variety of bacterial genera; however, as of yet very little work has been done to characterize the full diversity of these milk bacterial communities and their relative stability over time. To more thoroughly investigate the human milk microbiome, we utilized microbial identification techniques based on pyrosequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. Specifically, we characterized the bacterial communities present in milk samples c ...[more]