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SUBMITTER: Barfod KK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4676059 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barfod Kenneth Klingenberg KK Vrankx Katleen K Mirsepasi-Lauridsen Hengameh Chloé HC Hansen Jitka Stilund JS Hougaard Karin Sørig KS Larsen Søren Thor ST Ouwenhand Arthur C AC Krogfelt Karen Angeliki KA
The open microbiology journal 20151103
Most microbiome research related to airway diseases has focused on the gut microbiome. This is despite advances in culture independent microbial identification techniques revealing that even healthy lungs possess a unique dynamic microbiome. This conceptual change raises the question; if lung diseases could be causally linked to local dysbiosis of the local lung microbiota. Here, we manipulate the murine lung and gut microbiome, in order to show that the lung microbiota can be changed experiment ...[more]