Deep Sequencing Analyses of Low Density Microbial Communities: Working at the Boundary of Accurate Microbiota Detection

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Giske Biesbroek,

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunity UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Elisabeth A. M. Sanders,

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunity UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Guus Roeselers,

Affiliation Research Group Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Xinhui Wang,

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunity UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Martien P. M. Caspers,

Affiliation Research Group Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Krzysztof Trzciński,

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunity UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Debby Bogaert ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Debby Bogaert, Bart J. F. Keijser

* E-mail: dbogaert@umcutrecht.nl

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunity UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Bart J. F. Keijser

Contributed equally to this work with: Debby Bogaert, Bart J. F. Keijser

Affiliation Research Group Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, Zeist, The Netherlands
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The correct Probe sequence is FAM-ATTAGATACCCTGGTAGTCCA-MGB instead of the sequence mentioned in the original text (FAM-ATTAGATACCCTGGTAGTCCA-MGB).

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