The microbes we eat: abundance and taxonomy of microbes consumed in a day’s worth of meals for three diet types

Far more attention has been paid to the microbes in our feces than the microbes in our food. Research efforts dedicated to the microbes that we eat have historically been focused on a fairly narrow range of species, namely those which cause disease and those which are thought to confer some “probiot...

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Main Authors: Jenna M. Lang, Jonathan A. Eisen, Angela M. Zivkovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2014-12-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/659.pdf