Fecal Microbiota in Healthy Subjects Following Omnivore, Vegetarian and Vegan Diets: Culturable Populations and rRNA DGGE Profiling.

In this study, the fecal microbiota of 153 healthy volunteers, recruited from four different locations in Italy, has been studied by coupling viable counts, on different microbiological media, with ribosomal RNA Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (rRNA-DGGE). The volunteers followed three diffe...

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Main Authors: Ilario Ferrocino, Raffaella Di Cagno, Maria De Angelis, Silvia Turroni, Lucia Vannini, Elena Bancalari, Kalliopi Rantsiou, Gianluigi Cardinali, Erasmo Neviani, Luca Cocolin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4452701?pdf=render