RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Human Microbiota of the Argentine Population- A pilot study
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 030361
DO 10.1101/030361
A1 Belén Carbonetto
A1 Mónica Carolina Fabbro
A1 Mariela Sciara
A1 Analía Seravalle
A1 Guadalupe Méjico
A1 Santiago Revale
A1 María Soledad Romero
A1 Bianca Brun
A1 Marcelo Fay
A1 Fabián Fay
A1 Martin Vazquez
YR 2015
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/30/030361.abstract
AB Here we present the first dataset based on human microbiota samples of an urban middle-income population in South America. We characterized the microbiota of six different body habitats: palatine tonsils, saliva, buccal mucosa, throat, anterior nares and gut from samples of healthy individual living in a metropolitan area in Argentina. Our initial findings revealed differences in the structure and composition of the microbial communities compared to the US urban population. By sharing our data, we want to actively encourage its reuse for comparison purposes. This will hopefully result in novel biological insights on the variability of the microbiota of healthy individuals across populations worldwide. Moreover, the understanding of the human microbiota ecosystem in a health-associated state will help to answer questions related to the role of the microbiota in disease.