Science · 2005

Diversity of the human intestinal microbial flora

Eckburg PB, Bik EM, Bernstein CN, Purdom E, Dethlefsen L, Sargent M, Gill SR, Nelson KE, Relman DA.

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  • Eckburg PBDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Room S-169, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford CA 94305-5107, USA. eckburg1@stanford.edu
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Hugo Brown

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Important contribution to the field.

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Hugo Sato

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Solid methods, convincing results.

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Nadia Sato

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Great figures and clear story.

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Tom Khan

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Important contribution to the field.

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Mei Khan

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Interesting idea, small sample.

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Ken Silva

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Interesting idea, small sample.

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Sara Nguyen

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Nice but incremental.

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Lena Rossi

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Solid methods, convincing results.

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Nadia Rossi

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Solid methods, convincing results.

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Ravi Cohen

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Replication is unclear to me.

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Tom Kim

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Important contribution to the field.

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Sam Kim

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Replication is unclear to me.

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Pablo Mueller

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Important contribution to the field.

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Lena Mueller

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Interesting idea, small sample.

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Hugo Garcia

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Great figures and clear story.

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Maya Patel

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Eva Sato

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Important contribution to the field.

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Alex Cohen

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Important contribution to the field.

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Ines Rossi

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Replication is unclear to me.