Ecology and diversity in upper respiratory tract microbial population structures from a cross-sectional community swabbing study.

CONCLUSION: The application of epidemiological methods and ecological theory to respiratory tract samples has yielded novel insights into the factors that drive microbial community composition.
PMID: 29927372 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - June 21, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Coughtrie AL, Morris DE, Anderson R, Begum N, Cleary DW, Faust SN, Jefferies JM, Kraaijeveld AR, Moore MV, Mullee MA, Roderick PJ, Tuck A, Whittaker RN, Yuen HM, Doncaster CP, Clarke SC Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research