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A Disease-Agnostic Nasal Microbiome Wellness Index for Standardized Assessment of Upper-Airway Respiratory Health
Maria A. Barrera-Suarez, Vinod Kumar Gupta, Xiaowei Zhao…·Jaeyun Sung
The paper introduces a disease-agnostic Nasal Microbiome Wellness Index (NMWI) that quantitatively assesses nasal microbiome health using 16S rRNA gene data, outperforming traditional diversity indices in distinguishing healthy from non-healthy samples.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.19.739383