The bacterial density of clinical rectal swabs is highly variable, correlates with sequencing contamination, and predicts patient risk of extraintestinal infection
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DOI: 10.1186/s40168-021-01190-y
Abstract: Background In ecology, population density is a key feature of community analysis. Yet in studies of the gut microbiome, bacterial density is rarely reported. Studies of hospitalized patients commonly use rectal swabs for microbiome analysis,… read more here.
Keywords: sequencing contamination; density; rectal swabs; highly variable ... See more keywords