A Refined View of Airway Microbiome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at Species and Strain-Levels

Little is known about the underlying airway microbiome diversity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at in-depth taxonomic levels. Here we present the first insights on the COPD airway microbiome at species and strain-levels. The full-length 16S rRNA gene was characterized from sputum in...

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Main Authors: Zhang Wang, Haiyue Liu, Fengyan Wang, Yuqiong Yang, Xiaojuan Wang, Boxuan Chen, Martin R. Stampfli, Hongwei Zhou, Wensheng Shu, Christopher E. Brightling, Zhenyu Liang, Rongchang Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01758/full