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Supplementary material and methods 00019-2017_supp
Illustration of protected bronchoalveolar lavage (PBAL) with phosphate buffered saline (PBS). 00019-2017_figureS1
Illustration of protected specimen brush (PSB) sampling. 00019-2017_figureS2
Box-plot of alpha-diversity measured by wholetree phylogenetic differences by which lung that was sampled first and right/left protected specimen brush (PSB). Rarefied at 1000 sequences. 00019-2017_figureS3
Principal coordinates analyses of unweighted UniFrac distances by which lung that was sampled first (red dots â left side first, blue dots â right side first) in right protected specimen brushes (PSB) from the right lower lobe and left PSBs from the left upper lobe. Rarefied at 1000 sequences. 00019-2017_figureS4