Analysis of the Lung Microbiome in the “Healthy” Smoker and in COPD

Although culture-independent techniques have shown that the lungs are not sterile, little is known about the lung microbiome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We used pyrosequencing of 16S amplicons to analyze the lung microbiome in two ways: first, using bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL)...

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Autores principales: Erb-Downward, John R., Thompson, Deborah L., Han, Meilan K., Freeman, Christine M., McCloskey, Lisa, Schmidt, Lindsay A., Young, Vincent B., Toews, Galen B., Curtis, Jeffrey L., Sundaram, Baskaran, Martinez, Fernando J., Huffnagle, Gary B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21364979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016384

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