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Life in a distant land triggers upheaval in immigrants’ microbiomes

For people from southeast Asia, a move to the United States reduces the diversity of gut bacteria.
Hmong children eat soup from cans in Sacramento, California.

Members of the Hmong ethnic group (pictured) change their diets and have a less diverse range of gut microbes after moving from Asia to the United States. Credit: Manny Crisostomo/Sacramento Bee/Zreportage/eyevine

Immigration to the United States can trigger a swift and radical change in the population of bacteria living in the human gut, according to a study of people who moved from Thailand to Minnesota.

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Nature 563, 158 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07223-1

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