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Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomachElisabeth M Bik
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Fairchild Science Building, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:732-7. 2006..The gastric microbiota may play important, as-yet-undiscovered roles in human health and disease...
Composition and function of the human-associated microbiotaElisabeth M Bik
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA
Nutr Rev 67:S164-71. 2009..Investigating the composition and function of microbial symbionts will facilitate better understanding of their roles in human health and disease...
[The microbiotics of the human body]E M Bik
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 152:668-73. 2008..A set of fraternal twins showed almost identical microbial communities. --Investigating the composition of the human-associated microbiota will enable us to better understand the role of commensals in health and disease...
Diversity of the human intestinal microbial floraPaul B Eckburg
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Room S 169, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford CA 94305 5107, USA
Science 308:1635-8. 2005..We discovered significant intersubject variability and differences between stool and mucosa community composition. Characterization of this immensely diverse ecosystem is the first step in elucidating its role in health and disease...
Assembly of the human intestinal microbiotaLes Dethlefsen
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 21:517-23. 2006..We argue here that the unique history of each community and intrinsic temporal dynamics also influence the structure of human intestinal communities...
Bacterial diversity in the oral cavity of 10 healthy individualsElisabeth M Bik
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
ISME J 4:962-74. 2010....
Development of the human infant intestinal microbiotaChana Palmer
Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e177. 2007..By the end of the first year of life, the idiosyncratic microbial ecosystems in each baby, although still distinct, had converged toward a profile characteristic of the adult gastrointestinal tract...
Rapid quantitative profiling of complex microbial populationsChana Palmer
Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 34:e5. 2006..This simple, rapid microarray procedure can be used to explore and systematically characterize complex microbial communities, such as those found within the human body...
Dissecting biological "dark matter" with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouthYann Marcy
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:11889-94. 2007..This approach enables single-cell genetic analysis of any uncultivated minority member of a microbial community...
Microbial prevalence, diversity and abundance in amniotic fluid during preterm labor: a molecular and culture-based investigationDaniel B Digiulio
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e3056. 2008..However, molecular studies that define the diversity and abundance of microbes invading the amniotic cavity, and evaluate their clinical significance within a causal framework, are lacking...
Prevalence and diversity of microbes in the amniotic fluid, the fetal inflammatory response, and pregnancy outcome in women with preterm pre-labor rupture of membranesDaniel B Digiulio
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Am J Reprod Immunol 64:38-57. 2010..The role played by microbial invasion of the amniotic cavity (MIAC) in preterm pre-labor rupture of membranes (pPROM) is inadequately characterized, in part because of reliance on cultivation-based methods...
