Critical Relevance of Stochastic Effects on Low-Bacterial-Biomass 16S rRNA Gene Analysis

Does the human placenta delivered at term have a microbiota? Results of cultivation, quantitative real-time PCR, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and metagenomics

(2019) Kevin R. Theis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

The Impact of DNA Polymerase and Number of Rounds of Amplification in PCR on 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Data

(2019) Marc A. Sze et al.   mSphere

Human placenta has no microbiome but can contain potential pathogens

(2019) Marcus C. de Goffau et al.   NATURE

Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research

(2019) Jeremiah J. Minich et al.   mSystems

The Lung Microbiota of Healthy Mice are Highly Variable, Cluster by Environment, and Reflect Variation in Baseline Lung Innate Immunity

(2018) Robert P. Dickson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Unique, dual-indexed sequencing adapters with UMIs effectively eliminate index cross-talk and significantly improve sensitivity of massively parallel sequencing

(2018) Laura E. MacConaill et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Characterization and remediation of sample index swaps by non-redundant dual indexing on massively parallel sequencing platforms

(2018) Maura Costello et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Lack of detection of a human placenta microbiome in samples from preterm and term deliveries

(2018) Jacob S. Leiby et al.   Microbiome

Bacterial Topography of the Healthy Human Lower Respiratory Tract

(2017) Robert P. Dickson et al.   mBio

The Placental Microbiota Is Altered among Subjects with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Pilot Study

(2017) Jia Zheng et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Microbial communities in placentas from term normal pregnancy exhibit spatially variable profiles

(2017) Lindsay A. Parnell et al.   Scientific Reports

The placental membrane microbiome is altered among subjects with spontaneous preterm birth with and without chorioamnionitis

(2016) Amanda L. Prince et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Complex heatmaps reveal patterns and correlations in multidimensional genomic data

(2016) Zuguang Gu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparison of placenta samples with contamination controls does not provide evidence for a distinct placenta microbiota

(2016) Abigail P. Lauder et al.   Microbiome

Analysis of the Upper Respiratory Tract Microbiotas as the Source of the Lung and Gastric Microbiotas in Healthy Individuals

(2015) Christine M. Bassis et al.   mBio

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Changes in the Lung Microbiome following Lung Transplantation Include the Emergence of Two Distinct Pseudomonas Species with Distinct Clinical Associations

(2014) Robert P. Dickson et al.   PLoS One

Comparison of the Respiratory Microbiome in Healthy Nonsmokers and Smokers

(2013) Alison Morris et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Analysis of the Lung Microbiome in the “Healthy” Smoker and in COPD

(2011) John R. Erb-Downward et al.   PLoS One

Detection of microorganisms in exhaled breath condensate during acute exacerbations of COPD

(2011) TETYANA ZAKHARKINA et al.   RESPIROLOGY

Replicate or lie

(2010) James I. Prosser   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Disordered Microbial Communities in Asthmatic Airways

(2010) Markus Hilty et al.   PLoS One

Exhaled breath condensate appears to be an unsuitable specimen type for the detection of influenza viruses with nucleic acid-based methods

(2009) Kirsten St. George et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGICAL METHODS