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SUBMITTER: Kim SW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3686430 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Seok-Won SW Suda Wataru W Kim Sangwan S Oshima Kenshiro K Fukuda Shinji S Ohno Hiroshi H Morita Hidetoshi H Hattori Masahira M
DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes 20130409 3
Probiotics are live microorganisms that potentially confer beneficial outcomes to host by modulating gut microbiota in the intestine. The aim of this study was to comprehensively investigate effects of probiotics on human intestinal microbiota using 454 pyrosequencing of bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA genes with an improved quantitative accuracy for evaluation of the bacterial composition. We obtained 158 faecal samples from 18 healthy adult Japanese who were subjected to intervention with 6 commer ...[more]