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Relative abundance of bacterial microbiota in consecutively sampled patients.

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posted on 2016-05-20, 05:32 authored by Robert Krause, Bettina Halwachs, Gerhard G. Thallinger, Ingeborg Klymiuk, Gregor Gorkiewicz, Martin Hoenigl, Jürgen Prattes, Thomas Valentin, Katharina Heidrich, Walter Buzina, Helmut J. F. Salzer, Jasmin Rabensteiner, Florian Prüller, Reinhard B. Raggam, Andreas Meinitzer, Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Christoph Högenauer, Franz Quehenberger, Karl Kashofer, Ines Zollner-Schwetz

Consecutive lower respiratory tract samples of 4 intubated and mechanically ventilated patients with pneumonia. Bacteria are shown at genus level. Unclassified sequences in sample 304-3B-ASP-0 revealed Escherichia/Shigella sp. using a confidence threshold of 0.63. Comparison of these sequences with reference sequences using BLAST yielded uncultured Shigella sp. 16s rRNA genes. Unclassified sequences in sample 313-3B-VAP-0 revealed Enterobacter sp. using a confidence threshold of 0.63. Comparison of these sequences with reference sequences using BLAST yielded uncultured proteobacterium 16s rRNA genes. VAP = Ventilator associated pneumonia, ASP = aspiration pneumonia, NAP = nosocomial acquired pneumonia.