Host-Bacterial Mutualism in the Human In
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Backhed, F.
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Article
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2005
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American Association for the Advancement of Scienc
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English
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The distal human intestine represents an anaerobic bioreactor programmed with an enormous population of bacteria, dominated by relatively few divisions that are highly diverse at the strain/subspecies level. This microbiota and its collective genomes (microbiome) provide us with genetic and metaboli