Dysbiosis is not an answer

Dysbiosis, an imbalance in the microbiota, has been a major organizing concept in microbiome science. Here, we discuss how the balance concept, a holdover from prescientific thought, is irrelevant to — and may even distract from — useful microbiome research.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Olesen, Scott Wilder, Alm, Eric J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118383
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-4945
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364