Recent urbanization in China is correlated with a Westernized microbiome encoding increased virulence and antibiotic resistance genes

Abstract Background Urbanization is associated with an increased risk for a number of diseases, including obesity, diabetes, and cancer, which all also show associations with the microbiome. While microbial community composition has been shown to vary across continents and in traditional versus West...

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Main Authors: Kathryn Winglee, Annie Green Howard, Wei Sha, Raad Z. Gharaibeh, Jiawu Liu, Donghui Jin, Anthony A. Fodor, Penny Gordon-Larsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:Microbiome
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0338-7