Mucosal washes are useful for sampling intestinal mucus-associated microbiota despite low biomass
Jennifer N. Martínez-Medina, Fereshteh Ghazisaeedi, Catharina Kramer, J Ziegler, Victoria J. McParland, Paul Wilhelm Mönch, Britta Siegmund, Víctor Hugo Jarquín‐Díaz, Marcus Fulde, Sofia Kirke Forslund
The paper compares mucus-associated microbiota sampling methods in mice and humans, finding that mucosal washes yield less host contamination and comparable microbiota diversity to biopsies and scrapings.
Gut Microbes · Feb 20, 2025Peer-reviewedSystems Biology