The airway microbiota in cystic fibrosis: A complex fungal and bacterial community-implications for therapeutic management

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Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Delhaes, Laurence ^a,b,c,d   Monchy, Sébastien ^d,e   Fréalle, Emilie ^a,b,c,d   Hubans, Christine ^a   Salleron, Julia ^d   Leroy, Sylvie ^f   Prevotat, Anne ^f   Wallet, Frédérick ^d   Wallaert, Benoit ^f   Dei Cas, Eduardo ^a,b,c,d   Sime Ngando, Telesphore ^e   Chabé, Magali ^a,b,c,d   Viscogliosi, Eric ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^b INSERM U1019   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^f LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; BACTERIAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BODY MASS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT MICROFLORA; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; TAXONOMY; VEILLONELLA; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ADULT; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOME; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84860484915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036313     Document Type: Article

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