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Clinical metagenomic analysis of bacterial communities in breast abscesses of granulomatous mastitis
21 Oct 2016
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BACKGROUND: Granulomatous mastitis (GM) is a chronic inflammatory breast lesion. Its etiology remains incompletely defined. Although mounting evidence suggests the involvement of Corynebacterium in GM, there has been no systematic study of GM bacteriology using -omics technology. METHODS: The bacterial diversity and relative abundances in breast abscesses from 19 women with GM were investigated using 16S rDNA...
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