Gut microbiota in HIV–pneumonia patients is related to peripheral CD4 counts, lung microbiota, and in vitro macrophage dysfunction

Abstract Pneumonia is common and frequently fatal in HIV-infected patients, due to rampant, systemic inflammation and failure to control microbial infection. While airway microbiota composition is related to local inflammatory response, gut microbiota has been shown to correlate with the degree of p...

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Main Authors: Meera K. Shenoy, Douglas W. Fadrosh, Din L. Lin, William Worodria, Patrick Byanyima, Emmanuel Musisi, Sylvia Kaswabuli, Josephine Zawedde, Ingvar Sanyu, Emily Chang, Serena Fong, Kathryn McCauley, J. Lucian Davis, Laurence Huang, Susan V. Lynch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:Microbiome
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-019-0651-4