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Unique microbial communities persist in individual cystic fibrosis patients throughout a clinical exacerbation
BACKGROUND: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by inherited mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene and results in a lung environment that is highly conducive to polymicrobial infection. Over a lifetime, decreasing bacterial diversity and the presence of Pseudomonas aer...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24451123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-2618-1-27 |