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Getting to Know the Gut Microbial Diversity of Metropolitan Buenos Aires Inhabitants

Fiorella Sabrina Belforte1,2,3, Natalie Fernandez4, Francisco Tonín Monzón5

  • 1Laboratorio de Genómica Computacional, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Luján, Argentina.

Frontiers in Microbiology
|June 6, 2019
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16S rRNABuenos Airesgut micobiomemicrobiotawesternized population

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