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The respiratory virome and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
2019-01-02
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<h4>Introduction</h4> Exacerbations are major contributors to morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and respiratory bacterial and viral infections are an important trigger for the occurrence of such exacerbations. However, using conventional diagnostic techniques, a causative agent is not always found. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) allows analysis o...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 64ef9011-ee2a-5d45-ae04-521a5dd17279
- DOI
- 10.1101/509919
