Systems BiologyGut MicrobesPeer-reviewed
Mucosal washes are useful for sampling intestinal mucus-associated microbiota despite low biomass
Jennifer N. Martínez-Medina, Fereshteh Ghazisaeedi, Catharina Kramer…·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.