Ectopic gut colonization: a metagenomic study of the oral and gut microbiome in Crohn’s disease

Abstract Background This study aims to characterize, the gut and oral microbiome in Asian subjects with Crohn’s disease (CD) using whole genome shotgun sequencing, thereby allowing for strain-level comparison. Methods A case–control study with age, sex and ethnicity matched healthy controls was cond...

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Main Authors: Shijia Hu, Eileen Png, Michelle Gowans, David E. H. Ong, Paola Florez de Sessions, Jie Song, Niranjan Nagarajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-02-01
Series:Gut Pathogens
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13099-021-00409-5