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Sputum microbiome α-diversity is a key feature of the COPD frequent exacerbator phenotype
2023-08-13
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Background</h4> The lung microbiome is an inflammatory stimulus whose role in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pathogenesis is incompletely understood. We hypothesized that the frequent exacerbator phenotype is associated with decreased α-diversity and increased lung inflammation. Our objective was to assess correlations between the frequent exacerbator phenotype, the microbiome,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 292a5ba9-c110-54d5-b280-1990fbd46c13
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.08.09.23293835
