An unclassified microorganism: novel pathogen candidate lurking in human airways.

During the assessments of the correlation of the diseases and the microbiota of various clinical specimens, unique 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequences (less than 80% similarity to known bacterial type strains) were predominantly detected in a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) specimen from a p...

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Main Authors: Kazumasa Fukuda, Kazuhiro Yatera, Midori Ogawa, Toshinori Kawanami, Kei Yamasaki, Shingo Noguchi, Robert S Murphy, Hiroshi Mukae, Hatsumi Taniguchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4117515?pdf=render