Identification of Halophilic Microbes in Lung Fibrotic Tissue by Oligotyping

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable disease with poor prognosis and unknown etiology. The poor clinical outcome is associated with enhanced microbial burden in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from IPF patients. However, whether microbes from the respiratory tract fluid cause the disease...

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Main Authors: Corina N. D’Alessandro-Gabazza, Celia Méndez-García, Osamu Hataji, Sara Westergaard, Fumiaki Watanabe, Taro Yasuma, Masaaki Toda, Hajime Fujimoto, Kota Nishihama, Kentaro Fujiwara, Osamu Taguchi, Tetsu Kobayashi, Roderick I. Mackie, Isaac Cann, Esteban C. Gabazza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01892/full