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One versus Many: Polymicrobial Communities and the Cystic Fibrosis Airway.
mBio - 16 Mar 2021
Jean-Pierre Fabrice, Vyas Arsh, Hampton Thomas H, Henson Michael A, O'Toole George A
Abstract excerpt
Culture-independent studies have revealed that chronic lung infections in persons with cystic fibrosis (pwCF) are rarely limited to one microbial species. Interactions among bacterial members of these polymicrobial communities in the airways of pwCF have been reported to modulate clinically relevant phenotypes. Furthermore, it is clear that a single polymicrobial community in the context of CF airway infections...
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