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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-09-01
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Series: | Microbiome |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0338-7 |