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Title:
Characterizing the Lung Microbiome and its Effect in the Host Environment
Abstract:
The healthy lung is home to its own community of microbes, a recent discovery that has overturned the long-held belief that lungs are sterile. Since lung microbes have been shown to correlate with lung disease, we work to characterize microbes in healthy and diseased animal models. We demonstrate that lung microbes are a living population with altered community profiles in diseased states.