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Bacterial Colonisation of Surfaces in the Large Intestine

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While the human large intestinal microbiota is widely perceived as being a homogeneous entity, individual species and groups of microorganisms exist in a multiplicity of different microhabitats and metabolic niches associated with the mucosa, the mucus layer or in the colonic lumen, where bacteria exist as ‘free-living’ organisms, as microcolonies, or grow in intimate associations on the surfaces of particulate materials (Englyst et al., 1987; Macfarlane et al., 1997a).

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    Sandra Macfarlane, John H. Cummings & George T. Macfarlane

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Macfarlane, S., Cummings, J.H., Macfarlane, G.T. (1999). Bacterial Colonisation of Surfaces in the Large Intestine. In: Gibson, G.R., Roberfroid, M.B. (eds) Colonic Microbiota, Nutrition and Health. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1079-4_5

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