Dysbiosis is not an answer
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Olesen, Scott Wilder; Alm, Eric J
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Dysbiosis, an imbalance in the microbiota, has been a major organizing concept in microbiome science. Here, we discuss how the balance concept, a holdover from prescientific thought, is irrelevant to — and may even distract from — useful microbiome research.
Date issued
2016-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological EngineeringJournal
Nature Microbiology
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Citation
Olesen, Scott W., and Eric J. Alm. “Dysbiosis Is Not an Answer.” Nature Microbiology, vol. 1, no. 12, Dec. 2016.
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2058-5276