Mahmoud I Abdel-Aziz, Jonathan Thorsen, Simone Hashimoto, Susanne J H Vijverberg, Anne H Neerincx, Paul Brinkman, Wim van Aalderen, Jakob Stokholm, Morten Arendt Rasmussen, Michael Roggenbuck-Wedemeyer, Nadja H Vissing, Martin Steen Mortensen, Asker Daniel Brejnrod, Louise J Fleming, Clare S Murray, Stephen J Fowler, Urs Frey, Andrew Bush, Florian Singer, Gunilla Hedlin, Björn Nordlund, Dominick E Shaw, Kian Fan Chung, Ian M Adcock, Ratko Djukanovic, Charles Auffray, Aruna T Bansal, Ana R Sousa, Scott S Wagers, Bo Lund Chawes, Klaus Bønnelykke, Søren Johannes Sørensen, Aletta D Kraneveld, Peter J Sterk, Graham Roberts, Hans Bisgaard, Anke H Maitland-van der Zee
RATIONALE: Children with preschool wheezing or school-age asthma are reported to have airway microbial imbalances. OBJECTIVE: To identify clusters in children with asthma or wheezing using oropharyngeal microbiota profiles. METHODS: Oropharyngeal swabs, from the Unbiased BIOmarkers for the Prediction of REspiratory Disease outcomes pediatric asthma/wheezing cohort, were characterized by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and unsupervised hierarchical clustering was performed on the Bray-Curtis β-diversity...
May 10, 2023: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine