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Microbiota: The microbial community or bacterial flora living in a region.
Microbiome: The collective microbes comprising a microbiota.
Metagenomics: Analysis or study based on genomic sequences obtained by sequencing the microbiome.
OTU: Abbreviation of “operational taxonomic unit” that is a measure for classifying microbes based on a percent similarity threshold of bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences.
Dysbiosis (Dysbacteriosis): An imbalance in the bacterial composition and diversity of a microbiota often associated with various illnesses and inflammation.
Enterotype: A classification of gut microbiota based on its bacterial composition.
Introduction
The human body is co-housed by a large number of microorganisms, with microbial cells outnumbering human cells. The microbial symbionts are estimated to contribute as many as 1014cells, a number that is ten times greater...
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Hattori, M., Prakash, T. (2014). Human Intestinal Microbiome. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_776-2
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