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Atopobium and Fusobacterium as novel candidates for sarcoidosis-associated microbiota.
The European respiratory journal - 1 Dec 2017
Zimmermann Alexandra, Knecht Henrik, Häsler Robert, Zissel Gernot, Gaede Karoline I, Hofmann Sylvia, Nebel Almut, Müller-Quernheim Joachim, Schreiber Stefan, Fischer Annegret
Abstract excerpt
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease that mainly affects the lung. A role of microbial factors in disease pathogenesis is assumed, but has not been investigated systematically in a large cohort.This cross-sectional study compared the lung microbiota of 71 patients with sarcoidosis, 15 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (non-infectious controls) and 10 healthy controls (HCs). Next-generation sequencing...
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