Usability of rectal swabs for microbiome sampling in a cohort study of hematological and oncological patients

OBJECTIVES: Large-scale clinical studies investigating associations between intestinal microbiota signatures and human diseases usually rely on stool samples. However, the timing of repeated stool sample collection cannot be predefined in longitudinal settings. Rectal swabs, being straightforward to...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Biehl, Lena M., Garzetti, Debora, Farowski, Fedja, Ring, Diana, Koeppel, Martin B., Rohde, Holger, Schafhausen, Philippe, Stecher, Bärbel, Vehreschild, Maria J. G. T.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2019
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Research Article
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6464231/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30986251
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215428
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