Characterization of the oral fungal microbiome (mycobiome) in healthy individuals.

The oral microbiome-organisms residing in the oral cavity and their collective genome-are critical components of health and disease. The fungal component of the oral microbiota has not been characterized. In this study, we used a novel multitag pyrosequencing approach to characterize fungi present i...

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Main Authors: Mahmoud A Ghannoum, Richard J Jurevic, Pranab K Mukherjee, Fan Cui, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Ammar Naqvi, Patrick M Gillevet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/20072605/?tool=EBI