title: A physicians' wish list for the clinical application of intestinal metagenomics.
abstract: Christoph Steininger and colleagues explore how multiple infectious, autoimmune, metabolic, and neoplastic diseases have been associated with changes in the intestinal microbiome, although a cause-effect relationship is often difficult to establish. Integration of metagenomics into clinical medicine is a challenge, and the authors highlight clinical approaches that are of high priority for the useful medical application of metagenomics. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
authors.affiliation: Core Facility Molecular Biology, Center for Medical Research, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Ingeborg
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Klymiuk
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Högenauer
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; Core Facility Bioinformatics, Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Bettina
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Halwachs
authors.affiliation: Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria; Core Facility Bioinformatics, Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Gerhard G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Thallinger
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
authors.forename: W Florian
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Fricke
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Steininger
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007422:Intestines / Q000382:microbiology*; D056186:Metagenomics; D064307:Microbiota
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