Bacteroides

They found that the gut bacteria were largely from two distinct groups or enterotypes -- one called Bacteroides that preferred a typical Western diet rich in meat and fat, and another called Prevotella that preferred a high-carbohydrate diet.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

People with type 1, for example, had high levels of bacteria called Bacteroides.

NYT > Home Page By CARL ZIMMER 2011

The team searched databases for related enzymes and found that they are all also made by marine microbes - except one found in the genome of a human gut bacterium called Bacteroides plebeius.

Scientific American 2010

Certain anaerobic infections (Bacteroides fragilis, Clostridium perfringens)

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The researchers have named the microbial communities - or enterotypes - after the species of bacteria that is most numerous in each case: Bacteroides, Prevotella and Ruminococcus.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Paul Taylor 2011

In type 2, on the other hand, Bacteroides was relatively rare, while the genus Prevotella was unusually common.

NYT > Home Page By CARL ZIMMER 2011

Bacteroides in a patient who took a weeklong course of clindamycin; different colors represent the different species.

Wired Top Stories bdagosti 2011

For nine months after exposure, the subject's gut was left with nothing but one type, a clindamycin-resistant strain of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.

Wired Top Stories bdagosti 2011

They further comment on this finding to say that they're not ruling out the possibility that a more detailed analysis of the gut bacterial community may reveal differences between obese and normal weight people in some different bacteria species that make up the Bacteroides and Firmicutes groups, which is directly linked to the diet.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Tara C. Smith none@example.com 2010

Bacteroides bacteria containing these genes were only found in individuals with Japanese ancestry.

Scientific American 2010