PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Belén Carbonetto AU - Mónica Carolina Fabbro AU - Mariela Sciara AU - Analía Seravalle AU - Guadalupe Méjico AU - Santiago Revale AU - María Soledad Romero AU - Bianca Brun AU - Marcelo Fay AU - Fabián Fay AU - Martin Vazquez TI - Human Microbiota of the Argentine Population- A pilot study AID - 10.1101/030361 DP - 2015 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 030361 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/30/030361.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/10/30/030361.full AB - Here we present the first dataset based on human microbiota samples of an urban middle-income population in South America. We characterized the microbiota of six different body habitats: palatine tonsils, saliva, buccal mucosa, throat, anterior nares and gut from samples of healthy individual living in a metropolitan area in Argentina. Our initial findings revealed differences in the structure and composition of the microbial communities compared to the US urban population. By sharing our data, we want to actively encourage its reuse for comparison purposes. This will hopefully result in novel biological insights on the variability of the microbiota of healthy individuals across populations worldwide. Moreover, the understanding of the human microbiota ecosystem in a health-associated state will help to answer questions related to the role of the microbiota in disease.