Sputum microbiota associated with new, recurrent and treatment failure tuberculosis.

Microbiota have recently been shown to be associated with many disease conditions. However, the microbiota associated with tuberculosis (TB) infection, recurrence and treatment outcome have not been systematically characterized. Here, we used high throughput 16S RNA sequencing to analyze the sputum...

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Main Authors: Jing Wu, Wei Liu, Lei He, Fuli Huang, Jiazhen Chen, Peng Cui, Yaojie Shen, Jing Zhao, Wenjie Wang, Yan Zhang, Min Zhu, Wenhong Zhang, Ying Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3862690?pdf=render