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SUBMITTER: Lim ES
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4710368 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lim Efrem S ES Zhou Yanjiao Y Zhao Guoyan G Bauer Irma K IK Droit Lindsay L Ndao I Malick IM Warner Barbara B BB Tarr Phillip I PI Wang David D Holtz Lori R LR
Nature medicine 20150914 10
The early years of life are important for immune development and influence health in adulthood. Although it has been established that the gut bacterial microbiome is rapidly acquired after birth, less is known about the viral microbiome (or 'virome'), consisting of bacteriophages and eukaryotic RNA and DNA viruses, during the first years of life. Here, we characterized the gut virome and bacterial microbiome in a longitudinal cohort of healthy infant twins. The virome and bacterial microbiome we ...[more]