Culturomics- A Perspective

Greetings,Fig 1: Core and variable componentsof the human microbiome. Source Give a moments thought to this. There are several set of organisms seen in association with humans as microbial flora. Much of the microbes have not been studied in detail, that is demanded by the science. Reason? its simply difficult to culture them in the laboratory. With the invent of DNA studies, a large number of bacteria have been studied with strategies such as the metagenomics. A […]

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Greub, G. (2012). Culturomics: a new approach to study the human microbiome, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12032

Culturomics- A Perspective

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