Severe COVID-19 Is Associated With an Altered Upper Respiratory Tract Microbiome.

Front Cell Infect Microbiol · 2021 · PMC8819187 · PMID 35141167

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We found that bacterial richness and alpha-diversity showed a trend toward increasing as disease severity increased; however, alpha-diversity dropped in those patients who had the most severe COVID-19 disease.

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