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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-03-01
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Series: | Microbiome |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-019-0651-4 |