Nasopharyngeal Microbiome Diversity Changes over Time in Children with Asthma.

The nasopharynx is a reservoir for pathogens associated with respiratory illnesses such as asthma. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been used to characterize the nasopharyngeal microbiome of infants and adults during health and disease; less is known, however, about the composition and temporal...

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Main Authors: Marcos Pérez-Losada, Lamia Alamri, Keith A Crandall, Robert J Freishtat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5249091?pdf=render