Conducted on mice, the study found that low - fiber diets not only deplete the microbiota of the gut, but can cause loss of
bacterial diversity within those ecosystems in as few as three or four generations.
We are determining
the bacterial diversity within and between groups as well as the taxonomic composition of individuals and of the two populations.
Deep sequencing of isolates taken from a single patient carrying MRSA for the longest period revealed that although all isolates were of the same clade, there were small genetic differences between them, suggesting
bacterial diversity within a single carrier.
Not exact matches
Previous studies had linked high genetic
diversity within bacterial infections or in cancers with poor outcomes for patients treated with antimicrobial or chemotherapy drugs.
This lends further support to previous work suggesting that understanding transmission networks will require measures of
within - host
bacterial diversity as well as traditional «shoe - leather epidemiological» data.
We expect that this genomic level study will contribute to linking functional
diversity and phylogenetic
diversity within the dominant
bacterial grazers in the oceans.
I am working on
bacterial genomics and evolution with a focus on
within - patient microbial
diversity