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Oral seeding and niche-adaptation of middle ear biofilms in health
The entrenched dogma of a sterile middle ear mucosa in health is incongruent with its periodic aeration and seeding with saliva aerosols. To test this, we sequenced 16S rRNA-V4 amplicons from otic secretions collected at the nasopharyngeal orifice of the tympanic tube and, as controls, oropharyngeal...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7822943/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33665609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bioflm.2020.100041 |