Wei Xiao, Yi-Long Chen, Long-Yi Du, Jiqiu Wu, Zhang Wang, Bing Mao, Fu-Qiang Wen, Peter Gerard Gibson, Vanessa M McDonald, Haopeng Yu, Juan-Juan Fu
RATIONALE: Our understanding of airway dysbiosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains incomplete, which may be improved by unraveling the complexity in microbial interactome. OBJECTIVES: To characterize reproducible features of airway bacterial interactome in COPD at clinical stability and during exacerbation, and evaluate their associations with disease phenotypes. METHODS: We performed weighted ensemble-based co-occurrence network analysis of 1742 sputum microbiomes from published and new microbiome datasets, comprising two case-control studies of stable COPD versus healthy control, two studies of COPD stability versus exacerbation, and one study with exacerbation-recovery time series data...
April 20, 2024: Respiratory Research