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Nature Medicine - 12, 736 - 737 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0706-736

Human and microbe: united we stand

Inna Sekirov & B Brett Finlay

The authors are in the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4. bfinlay@interchange.ubc.ca

kanjiA metagenomic analysis of the microbes in the human gut reveals their diversity and just how interdependent we are on them. Together with our microbes we are a human-bacterial superorganism with immense metabolic diversity and capacity.

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