Pediatric asthma comprises different phenotypic clusters with unique nasal microbiotas.
Marcos Pérez-LosadaKayla J AutheletClaire E HoptayChristine KwakKeith A CrandallRobert J FreishtatPublished in: Microbiome (2018)
This study shows that children and adolescents with different clinical characteristics of asthma also show different nasal bacterial profiles, which is indicative of different phenotypes of the disease. Our work also shows how clinical and microbial information could be integrated to validate and refine asthma classification systems and develop biomarkers of disease.