Translating Lung Microbiome Profiles into the Next-Generation Diagnostic Gold Standard for Pneumonia: a Clinical Investigator’s Perspective
ABSTRACT Severe bacterial pneumonia is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet current diagnostic approaches rely on identification of causative pathogens by cultures, which require extended incubation periods and often fail to detect relevant pathogens. Consequently, patients are presc...
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| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2018-04-01
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| Series: | mSystems |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00153-17 |