The nasal microbiome in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis: Analyzing the effects of atopy and bacterial functional pathways in 111 patients

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Allergy/Immunology Division, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill. Electronic address: Mahboobeh_mahdavinia@rush.edu.
• ² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill.
• ³ Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Rush Sinus Program, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill.
• ⁴ DNA Services Facility, Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
• ⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Allergy/Immunology Division, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill.
• ⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Allergy/Immunology Division, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill.
• ⁷ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Internal Medicine Department, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
• ⁸ DNA Services Facility, Research Resources Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Ill.