University of British Columbia studying B-cepacia with some success!
Burkholderia cenocepacia has been a very hard to treat bacterial infection for our Cystic Fibrosis community. Some of you may remember a member of our community, LightnLife…Lauren Beyenhoff. She was a trained scientist and an active member of our site a few years ago. I remember our days on Second …
Cystic Fibrosis Lung Microbiome: Diversity and Lung Function
The article, The Lung Microbiome and Airway Disease, published September 2016 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society, describes various research studies that analyzed the relationship between the lung microbiome and airway disease in Cystic Fibrosis. Scientists can now better examine microbial communities in the lungs, and they are …