The respiratory microbiota and its impact on health and disease in dogs and cats: A One Health perspective

Abstract Healthy lungs were long thought of as sterile, with presence of bacteria identified by culture representing contamination. Recent advances in metagenomics have refuted this belief by detecting rich, diverse, and complex microbial communities in the healthy lower airways of many species, alb...

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Main Authors: Aida I. Vientós‐Plotts, Aaron C. Ericsson, Carol R. Reinero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-09-01
Series:Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.16824