The Adult Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiota Is Stable over Time and Infection Type, and Highly Resilient to Antibiotic Treatment of Exacerbations

Anthony A. Fodor; Erich R. Klem; Deirdre F. Gilpin; J. Stuart Elborn; Richard C. Boucher; Michael M. Tunney; Matthew C. Wolfgang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045001

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The Adult Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiota Is Stable over Time and Infection Type, and Highly Resilient to Antibiotic Treatment of Exacerbations

Anthony A. Fodor ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony A. Fodor, Michael M. Tunney, Matthew C. Wolfgang

* E-mail: matthew_wolfgang@med.unc.edu (MCW); afodor@uncc.edu (AAF)

Affiliation Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
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Erich R. Klem,

Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Deirdre F. Gilpin,

Affiliations CF and Airway Microbiology Research Group, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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J. Stuart Elborn,

Affiliations CF and Airway Microbiology Research Group, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, Center for Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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Richard C. Boucher,

Affiliation Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Michael M. Tunney ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony A. Fodor, Michael M. Tunney, Matthew C. Wolfgang

Affiliations CF and Airway Microbiology Research Group, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
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Matthew C. Wolfgang

Contributed equally to this work with: Anthony A. Fodor, Michael M. Tunney, Matthew C. Wolfgang

* E-mail: matthew_wolfgang@med.unc.edu (MCW); afodor@uncc.edu (AAF)

Affiliations Cystic Fibrosis/Pulmonary Research and Treatment Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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The Adult Cystic Fibrosis Airway Microbiota Is Stable over Time and Infection Type, and Highly Resilient to Antibiotic Treatment of Exacerbations

Anthony A. Fodor,
Erich R. Klem,
Deirdre F. Gilpin,
J. Stuart Elborn,
Richard C. Boucher,
Michael M. Tunney,
Matthew C. Wolfgang

Published: September 26, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045001

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