Identifying Bacterial Airways Infection in Stable Severe Asthma Using Oxford Nanopore Sequencing Technologies

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The human airways were once thought sterile in health. Now metagenomic techniques suggest bacteria may be present, but their role in asthma is not understood. Traditional culture lacks sensitivity and current sequencing techniques are limited by operational problems and limited ability to identify pathogens at species level. We optimized a new sequencing technique-Oxford Nanopore technologies (ONT)-for use on...

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