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Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Gut microbiota.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

On 4 September 2020, it was proposed that this article be moved from Gut flora to Human gut flora. The result of the discussion was consensus against move.

Section Addition: Effects of Diet on Microbial Communities

Multiple factors have been shown to change the composition of the microbiome in the gut, and an influx of studies have been created to show the impact of diet on these relationships. In order to make the "Alterations of Flora Balance" section more complete, I would recommend addressing this new area of thought, comparing vegetarian, vegan, and western diets in relationship to gut health.

You can find a useful article here: Daniela Graf, Raffaella Di Cagno, Frida Fåk, Harry J Flint, Margareta Nyman, Maria Saarela & Bernhard Watzl (2015) Contribution of diet to the composition of the human gut microbiota, Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 26:1, DOI: 10.3402/mehd.v26.26164

Wiki Education assignment: Applied Microbiology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2022 and 22 April 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Laura Batista (article contribs).