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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Transl Med. 2011 Mar 16;3(74):74ra24. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3001868

TABLE 2.

Microbiology of CFTRΔF508/Δ508 lung.

Case # Lung bacteria
Cultured species
(avg CFU/g) (range)
ΔF508/ΔF508 1 - - *
2 10 10** Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp.
3 115 0–230 Acinetobacter lwoffii, Escherichia coli, Leclercia adecarboxylata
4 743 230–1650 Alpha-hemolytic Streptococcus spp. (3 morphologies), coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. (3 morph), E. coli (2 morphologies), Enterococcus spp., Haemophilus spp., Pasteurella aerogenes, Salmonella spp.
+/+ 1 10 10 Alpha-hemolytic Streptococcus spp., Diphtheroids
2 0 0
3 0 0
4 0 0
*

samples were not collected for microbiology culture.

**

n = 1