Fluctuations in airway bacterial communities associated with clinical states and disease stages in cystic fibrosis.

Bacteria that infect the airways of persons with cystic fibrosis (CF) include a group of well-described opportunistic pathogens as well as numerous, mainly obligate or facultative anaerobic species typically not reported by standard sputum culture. We sequenced the V3-V5 hypervariable region of the...

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Main Authors: Lisa A Carmody, Lindsay J Caverly, Bridget K Foster, Mary A M Rogers, Linda M Kalikin, Richard H Simon, Donald R VanDevanter, John J LiPuma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5844593?pdf=render