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. 2016 May 15;193(10):1180-3.
doi: 10.1164/rccm.201512-2350LE.

Nasopharyngeal Microbiome in Respiratory Syncytial Virus Resembles Profile Associated with Increased Childhood Asthma Risk

Christian Rosas-Salazar  1 , Meghan H Shilts  2 , Andrey Tovchigrechko  2 , James D Chappell  1 , Emma K Larkin  1 , Karen E Nelson  2 , Martin L Moore  3   4 , Larry J Anderson  3   4 , Suman R Das  2 , Tina V Hartert  1
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Nasopharyngeal Microbiome in Respiratory Syncytial Virus Resembles Profile Associated with Increased Childhood Asthma Risk

Christian Rosas-Salazar et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Nasopharyngeal microbiome composition of healthy infants (left) and infants during acute respiratory syncytial virus infection (RSV; right). Stacked bar graph showing genus-level taxonomic composition for each individual nasopharyngeal sample, expressed as a proportion of reads of infants in each group. All samples are shown in this figure, regardless of sequence count. The relative abundance of the six most prevalent genera is shown; all other genera are not shown in this figure. Within each grouping, samples are sorted by predominant genera within that sample. Infants with acute RSV infection had a nasopharyngeal microbiome dominated by Streptococcus, Haemophilus, or Moraxella, whereas Haemophilus and Moraxella were observed at very low frequencies in healthy infants.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Average relative abundance of genera in nasopharyngeal samples of healthy infants and infants with acute respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Within each sample, counts were normalized to simple proportions. The relative abundance of the 20 most prevalent genera is shown; all other genera are not shown in this figure.
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