@article{d3481007b2e84076a6ba852af2d8eeea,
title = "Metagenomic Approaches for Defining the Pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases",
abstract = "The human gastrointestinal tract is home to immense and complex populations of microorganisms. Using recent technical innovations, the diversity present in this human body habitat is now being analyzed in detail. This review focuses on the microbial ecology of the gut in inflammatory bowel diseases and on how recent studies provide an impetus for using carefully designed, comparative metagenomic approaches to delve into the structure and activities of the gut microbial community and its interrelationship with the immune system.",
author = "Peterson, {Daniel A.} and Frank, {Daniel N.} and Pace, {Norman R.} and Gordon, {Jeffrey I.}",
note = "Funding Information: Work in the investigator's lab cited in this review was supported in part by grants from the NIH and from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. The authors regret that, due to space limitations, a number of excellent references relevant to the topics discussed in this review could not be cited or discussed. We thank Rob Knight for helpful comments and Ajit Varki (University of California, San Diego) for allowing us to use the term “glycophobia,” which he originally coined.",
year = "2008",
month = jun,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1016/j.chom.2008.05.001",
language = "English",
volume = "3",
pages = "417--427",
journal = "Cell Host and Microbe",
issn = "1931-3128",
number = "6",
}