Analysis of the Airway Microbiota of Healthy Individuals and Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by T-RFLP and Clone Sequencing

• Tetyana Zakharkina,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany

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• Elke Heinzel,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of the University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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• Rembert A. Koczulla,

  Affiliation Clinic of Pneumology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Timm Greulich,

  Affiliation Clinic of Pneumology, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Katharina Rentz,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany

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• Josch K. Pauling,

  Affiliation Department of Computational Systems Biology, Max-Plank Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany

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• Jan Baumbach,

  Current address: Computational Biology group, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej, Odense M, Denmark

  Affiliation Department of Computational Systems Biology, Max-Plank Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany

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• Mathias Herrmann,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of the University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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• Christiane Grünewald,

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Hendrik Dienemann,

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Lutz von Müller,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene of the University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

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• Robert Bals

  * E-mail: robert.bals@uks.eu

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine V – Pulmonology, Allergology, Respiratory Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany

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