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SUBMITTER: Budding AE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4096398 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Budding Andries E AE Grasman Matthijs E ME Eck Anat A Bogaards Johannes A JA Vandenbroucke-Grauls Christina M J E CM van Bodegraven Adriaan A AA Savelkoul Paul H M PH
PloS one 20140714 7
The composition of the gut microbiota is associated with various disease states, most notably inflammatory bowel disease, obesity and malnutrition. This underlines that analysis of intestinal microbiota is potentially an interesting target for clinical diagnostics. Currently, the most commonly used sample types are feces and mucosal biopsy specimens. Because sampling method, storage and processing of samples impact microbiota analysis, each sample type has its own limitations. An ideal sample ty ...[more]