Characterizing human lung tissue microbiota and its relationship to epidemiological and clinical features

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BACKGROUND: The human lung tissue microbiota remains largely uncharacterized, although a number of studies based on airway samples suggest the existence of a viable human lung microbiota. Here we characterized the taxonomic and derived functional profiles of lung microbiota in 165 non-malignant lung tissue samples from cancer patients. RESULTS: We show that the lung microbiota is distinct from the microbial...

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