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SUBMITTER: Hamad I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5711903 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hamad Ibrahim I Ranque Stéphane S Azhar Esam I EI Yasir Muhammad M Jiman-Fatani Asif A AA Tissot-Dupont Hervé H Raoult Didier D Bittar Fadi F
Scientific reports 20171201 1
Herein, the mycobiota was characterized in fecal samples from sick patients and healthy subjects, collected from different geographical locations and using both culturomics and amplicon-based metagenomics approaches. Using the culturomics approach, a total of 17,800 fungal colonies were isolated from 14 fecal samples, and resulted in the isolation of 41 fungal species, of which 10 species had not been previously reported in the human gut. Deep sequencing of fungal-directed ITS1 and ITS2 amplicon ...[more]