Distinctive airway microbial ecology of smokers and asthmatics
E. M. Turek, M. J. Cox, M. Hunter, J. Hui, P. James, S. A. Willis-Owen, L. Cuthbertson, A. James, A. W. Musk, M. F. Moffatt, W. O. Cookson
The paper examines airway microbial communities in smokers and asthmatics, finding smoking reduces diversity and alters bacterial networks, while asthma shows more targeted microbial changes.
bioRxiv · Mar 21, 2019 · PreprintMicrobiology