%0 Journal Article %T How low can we go? The implications of low bacterial load in respiratory microbiota studies %A Amanda J. Leach %A Anne B. Chang %A Chris E. Pope %A Heidi C. Smith-Vaughan %A Lucas R. Hoffman %A Maria T. Nelson %A Robyn L. Marsh %J Archive of "Pneumonia". %D 2018 %R 10.1186/s41479-018-0051-8 %X Examples of genera detected previously as background contamination in negative controls from respiratory microbiota studies [4, 8, 11, 52 %K Microbiota %K 16S rRNA gene sequencing %K Bacterial load %K Low bacterial load %K Background contamination %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6033291/