Laboratory contamination in airway microbiome studies

Laboratory contamination in airway microbiome studies

Abstract Background The low bacterial load in samples acquired from the lungs, have made studies on the airway microbiome vulnerable to contamination from bacterial DNA introduced during sampling and laboratory processing. We have examined the impact of laboratory contamination on samples collected...

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Main Authors: Christine Drengenes, Harald G. Wiker, Tharmini Kalananthan, Eli Nordeide, Tomas M. L. Eagan, Rune Nielsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-08-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Subjects:
Microbiome
Contamination
Low biomass
Respiratory
16S rRNA gene
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12866-019-1560-1

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