A research project to evaluated different DNA extraction protocols and different fungal (ITS1 or ITS2) and bacterial (V1-V3 and V3-V4 16S) targets for fungal and bacterial targeted metagenomics from r
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may worsen with microbial changes in the respiratory tract but studies into taxonomic structure of the COPD lung microbiome have yielded equivocal results.