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. 2022 Mar 24;65(7):1469–1472. doi: 10.1007/s11427-021-2092-1

Comparison of microbial composition and diversity in the upper respiratory tract between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus infections

Lijia Jia 1,#, Meng Xu 1,3,#, Mengchan Hao 1,3,#, Di Liu 1,3, Haizhou Liu 1,, Xin Zheng 2,, Jianjun Chen 1,
PMCID: PMC8962226  PMID: 35349047

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81961138013, 31970174), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC1603803, 2017ZX10103005-005), and the Key Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (KJZD-SW-L11). The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. We acknowledge the BSL-3 laboratory and the Core Facility and Technical Support, Wuhan Institute of Virology for supporting.

Compliance and ethics The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. The bioproject number for the raw sequencing data reported in this paper is PRJCA006528 (available at http://bigd.big.ac.cn).

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Haizhou Liu, Email: liuhz@wh.iov.cn.

Xin Zheng, Email: xin11@hotmail.com.

Jianjun Chen, Email: chenjj@wh.iov.cn.

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