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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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Autores principales: Price, Katherine E, Hampton, Thomas H, Gifford, Alex H, Dolben, Emily L, Hogan, Deborah A, Morrison, Hilary G, Sogin, Mitchell L, O’Toole, George A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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