Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiome: Overturning the Old, Opening the Way for the New

Abstract excerpt

The genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF) is associated with chronic airway infections that are a proximal cause of death in many patients with this affliction. Classic microbiology studies focusing on canonical pathogens resulted in the development of a common set of views regarding the nature of the airway infections associated with this disease, and these ideas have influenced everything from the way infections...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
• Share to Dysphagia Assessment and Management
• Share to Tracheal and airway disorders