The microbiome of the human lower airways: A next generation sequencing perspective

World Allergy Organization Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Aho, Velma T E ^a   Pereira, Pedro A B ^a   Haahtela, Tari ^b   Pawankar, Ruby ^c   Auvinen, Petri ^a   Koskinen, Kaisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AMPLICON; ARSENIC POISONING; ASTHMA; BIOINFORMATICS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LOWER AIRWAY MICROFLORA; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROFLORA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REVIEW; SMOKING; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84935882625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19394551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40413-015-0074-z     Document Type: Review

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