Detection of BA in BALF correlates with distinctive microbial profiles
Given the very young age of this cohort, we explored associations between BA detection and lung microbial profiles. BALF samples containing BA had higher bacterial burden (Log10(16S DNA copies), median [IQR], BA detected: 4.78 [4.23–5.13]; no BA detected: 4.12 [3.78–4.60]; WRST (Detection of BA in BALF links to distinctive microbial profiles. Box plots overlaid with density curves (violin plots, blue) representing the bacterial burden (