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Characterization Of Urinary Microbiome And Their Association With Health And Disease, Yige Bao
Characterization Of Urinary Microbiome And Their Association With Health And Disease, Yige Bao
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There has been a growing interest in human microbiome studies in the past decade, with the development of high-throughput sequencing techniques. These microorganisms interact and respond to the host as an entity, and are involved in various homeostatic functions including nutrition digestion, immune response, metabolism and endocrine regulation. The urinary microbiome, however, remains relatively under-investigated.
One of the technical challenges of urinary microbiome studies is the samples usually contain a large number of host cells and low microbial biomass. These samples with the high host, low microbial abundance (“high-low” samples) are associated with increased risk of compromised quality of …