Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies

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• Publication year

  2023

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  Nature

• Publication date

  2023-01-01

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  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41586-022-05546-8PMID 36697862PMCID PMC11333990
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