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Systematic discovery of probiotics

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Systems-level modeling of the gut microbiota uncovers a candidate bacteriotherapy for Clostridium difficile.

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Figure 1: Systematic candidate bacteriotherapy selection.

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  1. Samuel C. Forster & Trevor D. Lawley are at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.,

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