We report the initial characterization of the gastrointestinal tract (gut) and oral microbiota (bacteria) in 32 urban Pakistani adults. Study participants were between ages 18 and 40, had body mass in
With the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology, there have been a large number of metagenomic studies that estimated the bacterial composition via 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) ampli
