A physicians' wish list for the clinical application of intestinal metagenomics.

Christoph Steininger and colleagues explore how multiple infectious, autoimmune, metabolic, and neoplastic diseases have been associated with changes in the intestinal microbiome, although a cause-effect relationship is often difficult to establish. Integration of metagenomics into clinical medicine...

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Main Authors: Ingeborg Klymiuk, Christoph Högenauer, Bettina Halwachs, Gerhard G Thallinger, W Florian Fricke, Christoph Steininger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-04-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24736271/?tool=EBI