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SUBMITTER: Espuela-Ortiz A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6851413 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Espuela-Ortiz Antonio A Lorenzo-Diaz Fabian F Baez-Ortega Adrian A Eng Celeste C Hernandez-Pacheco Natalia N Oh Sam S SS Lenoir Michael M Burchard Esteban G EG Flores Carlos C Pino-Yanes Maria M
Pediatric pulmonology 20190909 12
Several studies have shown that the airways of asthma patients contain higher diversity of bacteria and are enriched in pathogenic species. However, sampling the airways in children is challenging. Here we aimed to identify differences in the salivary bacterial composition between African Americans children with and without asthma. Saliva samples from 57 asthma cases and 57 healthy controls were analyzed by means of 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon profiling. Measurements of bacterial diversity and ge ...[more]