Airway microbial metagenomics

Publication date: Available online 26 December 2017Source: Microbes and InfectionAuthor(s): Katarzyna Pienkowska, Lutz Wiehlmann, Burkhard TümmlerAbstractHigh-throughput untargeted metagenome sequencing provides information about the composition of the microbial communities of viruses, bacteria, archaea and unicellular eukaryotes in the habitat of interest. This review outlines the sampling, processing, sequencing and bioinformatic analysis of secretions of the respiratory tract and summarizes our current knowledge of the upper and lower human airways metagenome in health and disease.
Source: Microbes and Infection - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research