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Catherine R Wilson1, Philip J Mitchelmore1, Nicholas Withers1
1University of Exeter, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.
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Whether cross-infection of respiratory pathogens between patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis occurs is debated. Investigation with traditional microbiological culture risks simplifying the lung microbiome. We demonstrate the use of culture-independent Multilocus sequence typing to screen for Haemophilus influenzae strain types in a cohort of twenty-eight patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis.
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