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Table 4 Codes used for swab/biopsy sites

From: Species-level bacterial community profiling of the healthy sinonasal microbiome using Pacific Biosciences sequencing of full-length 16S rRNA genes

Swabs

Biopsies

Code

Site

Code

Site

A

Nasal vestibule

B

Head of inferior turbinate tissue

C

Middle meatus

D

Uncinate process tissue

E

Maxillary sinus

F

Maxillary sinus tissue

G

Ethmoid culture (deep to ethmoid bulla)

H

Ethmoid tissue (deep to ethmoid bulla)

I

Superior meatus

J

Sphenoethmoidal recess tissue

K

Sphenoid

L

Sphenoid tissue

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