Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Lung Microbiota Diversity May Be Mediated by Age or Inhaled Corticosteroid Use
Author(s) -
Alexa A. Pragman,
Hyeun Bum Kim,
Cavan S. Reilly,
Christine Wendt,
Richard E. Isaacson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349
H-Index - 255
eISSN - 1070-633X
pISSN - 0095-1137
DOI - 10.1128/jcm.03320-14
Subject(s) - copd , pulmonary disease , sputum , lung disease , medicine , obstructive lung disease , lung , immunology , diversity (politics) , corticosteroid , respiratory disease , pathology , tuberculosis , sociology , anthropology
We read with great interest the paper by Garcia-Nunez et al. ([1][1]) published in the December 2014 issue of this journal, where the authors investigated the sputum microbiota of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. The authors found decreased microbial diversity in patients with
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