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Microbiome of the Healthy External Auditory Canal
17 Dec 2020
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the microbiota of the healthy external auditory canal (EAC) culture-independently and to evaluate the usefulness of the swabbing method in collecting EAC microbiota samples. STUDY DESIGN: Cohort study. PATIENTS: Fifty healthy asymptomatic working-age volunteers. INTERVENTION: Samples were harvested with DNA-free swabs from the volunteers' EACs. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Amplicon sequencing...
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