2020
Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Novel Coronavirus Infections Involving 13 Patients Outside Wuhan, China
Chang D, Lin M, Wei L, Xie L, Zhu G, Dela Cruz CS, Sharma L. Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Novel Coronavirus Infections Involving 13 Patients Outside Wuhan, China. JAMA 2020, 323: 1092-1093. PMID: 32031568, PMCID: PMC7042871, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.1623.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2017
The microbiome of the lung and its extracellular vesicles in nonsmokers, healthy smokers and COPD patients
Kim HJ, Kim YS, Kim KH, Choi JP, Kim YK, Yun S, Sharma L, Dela Cruz CS, Lee JS, Oh YM, Lee SD, Lee SW. The microbiome of the lung and its extracellular vesicles in nonsmokers, healthy smokers and COPD patients. Experimental & Molecular Medicine 2017, 49: e316-e316. PMID: 28408748, PMCID: PMC5420800, DOI: 10.1038/emm.2017.7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseCOPD groupLung tissueClinical characteristicsHealthy smokersNormal spirometryPresence of COPDExtracellular vesiclesHealthy smoker groupParticipants' clinical characteristicsSurgical lung tissueObstructive pulmonary diseaseChronic inflammatory diseaseSame mean ageRibosomal RNA gene sequencingRNA gene sequencingCOPD patientsSmoker groupImmune dysfunctionPulmonary diseaseSmoking statusMean ageNanometer-sized extracellular vesiclesLung microbiomeInflammatory diseases