Meat-loving microbes: do steak-eating bacteria promote atherosclerosis?

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Jane F Ferguson. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2013 Jun.

. 2013 Jun;6(3):308-9.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.113.000213.

¹ Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. jfer@mail.med.upenn.edu

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Keywords: atherosclerosis; cardiovascular disease; carnitine; diet.

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