Airway microbiota in severe asthma and relationship to asthma severity and phenotypes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Qingling ^a,b,c   Cox, Michael ^a   Liang, Zhike ^a,b,c   Brinkmann, Folke ^a   Cardenas, Paul A ^a   Duff, Rachael ^a   Bhavsar, Pankaj ^a,b   Cookson, William ^a,b   Moffatt, Miriam ^a,b   Chung, Kian Fan ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

16S RRNA GENE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CELL COUNT; GENETICS; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SPUTUM;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPUTUM;

EID: 84977636886     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152724     Document Type: Article

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