Longitudinal development of the airway metagenome of preterm very low birth weight infants during the first two years of life

Rosenboom, Ilona^1#, Pust, Marie-Madlen¹, Pirr, Sabine¹, Bakker, Alina¹, Willers, Maike¹, Davenport, Colin F.², Wiehlmann, Lutz², Viemann, Dorothee^1,3,4,5, Tümmler, Burkhard^1,4,6

¹Department for Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

²Research Core Unit Genomics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

³Translational Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

⁴Cluster of Excellence RESIST (EXC 2155), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

⁵Center for Infection Research, University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

⁶German Center for Lung Research, Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Running Title

Development of the airway metagenome of VLBW preterms

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43705-023-00285-x

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