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Mycobiome analysis of electronic cigarettes reveals a reservoir of pathogenic yeasts

2025-08-01

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Research on the health impacts of e-cigarettes has focused on non-infectious manifestations. Given their enclosed plastic design and temperature fluctuations, we hypothesized that e-cigarettes are colonized by pathogenic microbes, thereby contributing to lung disease in users. Using sequencing and culture techniques of the devices and mouthwash of 25 users, we found only a small subset of mouthpieces to contain ba...

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Literature Corpus work: e81dafc4-321e-52a9-bb18-50cd21256283
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.01.668078

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