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Figure 1 | Microbiome

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From: Unique microbial communities persist in individual cystic fibrosis patients throughout a clinical exacerbation

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Neither absolute bacterial load nor absolute abundance of Pseudomonas correlates with clinical stage. (A) Absolute bacterial load in each sputum sample calculated by qPCR with universal primers to 16s rRNA gene normalized to gram of sputum extracted for this analysis (16s molecules (log10)/gram sputum). (B) Absolute abundance of P. aeruginosa in each sputum sample calculated by qPCR with primers to rplU, a reference gene validated as specific to P. aeruginosa, normalized to gram of sputum extracted for this analysis (rplU molecules (log10)/gram sputum). B, baseline; E, exacerbation; R, recovery; T, treatment.

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