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Bacterial Topography of the Healthy Human Lower Respiratory Tract

Although culture-independent techniques have refuted lung sterility in health, controversy about contamination during bronchoscope passage through the upper respiratory tract (URT) has impeded research progress. We sought to establish whether bronchoscopic sampling accurately reflects the lung micro...

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Published in:mBio
Main Authors: Dickson, Robert P., Erb-Downward, John R., Freeman, Christine M., McCloskey, Lisa, Falkowski, Nicole R., Huffnagle, Gary B., Curtis, Jeffrey L.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312084/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28196961
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02287-16
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