The species-level microbiota of healthy eyes revealed by the integration of metataxonomics with culturomics and genome analysis

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Objectives To characterize the healthy ocular surface microbiota at the species level, including cultured and uncultured taxa. Methods We integrated the metataxonomic method with culturomics and genome sequencing analysis of selected isolated strains to better illustrate the taxonomic structure of the ocular surface microbiota. The metataxonomics used the full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences and the operational...

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