Changes in the Gut Microbiota of Urban Subjects during an Immersion in the Traditional Diet and Lifestyle of a Rainforest Village

ABSTRACT People living traditional lifestyles have higher gut microbiota diversity than urban subjects. We hypothesized that shifting lifestyles from an urban environment to a traditional rainforest village would lead to changes in the microbiota of visitors, which would become more similar to the m...

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Main Authors: Kelly V. Ruggles, Jincheng Wang, Angelina Volkova, Monica Contreras, Oscar Noya-Alarcon, Orlana Lander, Hortensia Caballero, Maria G. Dominguez-Bello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-08-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00193-18