A physicians' wish list for the clinical application of intestinal metagenomics.
review · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001627 and PMC identifier 3987993.
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Abstract
Christoph Steininger and colleagues explore how multiple infectious, autoimmune, metabolic, and neoplastic diseases have been associated with changes in the intestinal microbiome, although a cause-effect relationship is often difficult to establish. Integration of metagenomics into clinical medicine is a challenge, and the authors highlight clinical approaches that are of high priority for the useful medical application of metagenomics. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
Medical subject headings
- Intestines
- Metagenomics
- Microbiota