Airway Microbiota in Severe Asthma and Relationship to Asthma Severity and Phenotypes.

BACKGROUND:The lower airways harbor a community of bacterial species which is altered in asthma. OBJECTIVES:We examined whether the lower airway microbiota were related to measures of asthma severity. METHODS:We prospectively recruited 26 severe asthma, 18 non-severe asthma and 12 healthy subjects....

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Main Authors: Qingling Zhang, Michael Cox, Zhike Liang, Folke Brinkmann, Paul A Cardenas, Rachael Duff, Pankaj Bhavsar, William Cookson, Miriam Moffatt, Kian Fan Chung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4831690?pdf=render