Nasopharyngeal microbiota in healthy children and pneumonia patients.
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SUBMITTER: Sakwinska O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3993659 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May
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Nasopharyngeal microbiota in healthy children and pneumonia patients.
Sakwinska Olga O Bastic Schmid Viktoria V Berger Bernard B Bruttin Anne A Keitel Kristina K Lepage Mélissa M Moine Deborah D Ngom Bru Catherine C Brüssow Harald H Gervaix Alain A
Journal of clinical microbiology 20140305 5
Our study is the first to compare the nasopharyngeal microbiota of pediatric pneumonia patients and control children by 454 pyrosequencing. A distinct microbiota was associated with different pneumonia etiologies. Viral pneumonia was associated with a high abundance of the operational taxonomic unit (OTU) corresponding to Moraxella lacunata. Patients with nonviral pneumonia showed high abundances of OTUs of three typical bacterial pathogens, Streptococcus pneumoniae complex, Haemophilus influenz ...[more]
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