xenomicrobiota

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

xeno- +‎ microbiota

Noun[edit]

xenomicrobiota (countable and uncountable, plural xenomicrobiotas)

  1. The microbiota from another individual or species.
    • 2015 August 20, James Collins et al., “Humanized microbiota mice as a model of recurrent Clostridium difficile disease”, in Microbiome[1], volume 3, →DOI:
      The reduction, albeit slight, is concordant with data of xenomicrobiota transferred to the murine host [ 13 ].