Harnessing microbiome and probiotic research in sub-Saharan Africa: recommendations from an African workshop
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Abstract
To augment capacity-building for microbiome and probiotic research in Africa, a workshop was held in Nairobi, Kenya, at which researchers discussed human, animal, insect, and agricultural microbiome and probiotics/prebiotics topics. Five recommendations were made to promote future basic and translational research that benefits Africans.
Date Issued
2014-04-16
Date Acceptance
2014-03-06
Citation
Microbiome, 2014, 2
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2049-2618
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BioMed Central
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Microbiome
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2
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© Reid et al. 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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12