Super Dominant Pathobiontic Bacteria in the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota Cause Secondary Bacterial Infection in COVID-19 Patients

ABSTRACT Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory infectious disease responsible for many infections worldwide. Differences in respiratory microbiota may correlate with disease severity. Samples were collected from 20 severe and 51 mild COVID-19 patients. High-throughput sequencing of th...

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Main Authors: Tian Qin, Yajie Wang, Jianping Deng, BaoHong Xu, Xiong Zhu, Jitao Wang, Haijian Zhou, Na Zhao, Fangfang Jin, Hongyu Ren, Huizhu Wang, Qun Li, Xinmin Xu, Yumei Guo, Ruihong Li, Yanwen Xiong, XiaoXia Wang, Jiane Guo, Han Zheng, Xuexin Hou, Kanglin Wan, Jianzhong Zhang, Jinxing Lu, Biao Kan, Jianguo Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01956-21