Phages in the Infant Gut: a Framework for Virome Development During Early Life

Overview

Journal ISME J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 2021 Aug 21

PMID 34417565

Citations 33

Authors

Michael Shamash

Corinne F Maurice

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