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Composition and Diversity of the Fecal Microbiome and Inferred Fecal Metagenome Does Not Predict Subsequent Pneumonia Caused by Rhodococcus equi in Foals

In equids, susceptibility to disease caused by Rhodococcus equi occurs almost exclusively in foals. This distribution might be attributable to the age-dependent maturation of immunity following birth undergone by mammalian neonates that renders them especially susceptible to infectious diseases. Exp...

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Autores principales: Whitfield-Cargile, Canaan M., Cohen, Noah D., Suchodolski, Jan, Chaffin, M. Keith, McQueen, Cole M., Arnold, Carolyn E., Dowd, Scot E., Blodgett, Glenn P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4549325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26305682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136586