• Laboratory contamination in airway microbiome studies 

      Drengenes, Christine; Wiker, Harald G; Kalananthan, Tharmini; Nordeide, Eli; Eagan, Tomas Mikal; Nielsen, Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-14)
      Background The low bacterial load in samples acquired from the lungs, have made studies on the airway microbiome vulnerable to contamination from bacterial DNA introduced during sampling and laboratory processing. We have ...
    • The role of arginine and arginine-metabolizing enzymes during Giardia - host cell interactions in vitro 

      Stadelmann, Britta; Hanevik, Kurt; Andersson, Mattias; Bruserud, Øystein; Svärd, Staffan G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013-11-14)
      Background: Arginine is a conditionally essential amino acid important in growing individuals and under nonhomeostatic conditions/disease. Many pathogens interfere with arginine-utilization in host cells, especially nitric ...