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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 71, Issue 10, Pages 6438-6442Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.10.6438-6442.2005
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The relationship between fecal inicrobiota composition and frailty in the elderly was studied. Fecal samples from volunteers with high frailty scores showed a significant reduction in the number of lactobacilli (26-fold). At much higher population levels, both the Bacteroides/Prevotella (threefold) and the Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (fourfold) groups showed a significant reduction in percentage of total number of hybridizable bacteria in the elderly with high frailty scores. In contrast to this, the number of Enterobacteriaceae was significantly higher (sevenfold) in samples from very frail volunteers.
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