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SUBMITTER: Hasegawa K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5459592 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The European respiratory journal 20161006 5
Little is known about the relationship between the specific airway microbiota composition and severity of bronchiolitis. We aimed to identify nasopharyngeal microbiota profiles and link these profiles to acute severity in infants hospitalised for bronchiolitis.We conducted a multicentre prospective cohort study of 1005 infants (age <1 year) hospitalised for bronchiolitis over three winters, 2011-2014. By applying a 16S rRNA gene sequence and clustering approach to the nasopharyngeal aspirates co ...[more]