Healthy respiratory microbiome: an innovative project within the first birth cohort in Angola
Childhood pneumonia remains the major infant killer worldwide and displays a particularly devastating effect in sub-Saharan Africa despite the implementation and scaling-up of preventive programs and early management against paediatric pneumonia in developing countries. Studying the human microbiome and its positive effects in health may be one of the answers needed to tackle paediatric mortality […]
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Respiratory microbiota and lower respiratory tract disease
The respiratory airways harbor a complex succession of ecological niches with distinct but related bacterial communities. Particular challenges of respiratory microbiome research have led to limited scientific output compared to other human microbiomes. Areas covered: In this review, we summarize the current state of knowledge of the bacterial respiratory microbiome, with a particular focus on […]
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