“…The variations in the resultant microbial profiles in different studies due to methodological disparities make comparisons difficult and not very meaningful (Mai and Draganov, 2009). Although the results of a few studies available to date have shown no significant effects of different DNA extraction methods on the resultant bacterial profiles of biological samples (Peng et al, 2013, Wagner Mackenzie et al, 2015, a number of workers have recognised and called for a consensus and a universal DNA extraction method for microbiome analyses to overcome the challenges and misrepresentation inherent in using disparate techniques (Abusleme et al, 2014, Claassen et al, 2013, Henderson et al, 2013, Kennedy et al, 2014, Lazarevic et al, 2013, Maukonen et al, 2012, Walker et al, 2015, Yuan et al, 2012.…”