Enriched Opportunistic Pathogens Revealed by Metagenomic Sequencing Hint Potential Linkages between Pharyngeal Microbiota and COVID-19

• Dongyan Xiong ^1,2 , 
• Caroline Muema ^1,2 , 
• Xiaoxu Zhang ^1,2 , 
• Xinming Pan ³ , 
• Jin Xiong ¹ , 
• Hang Yang ¹ , 
• Junping Yu ^{1 ,,} , 
• Hongping Wei ^{1 ,,}

cstr: 32224.14.s12250-021-00391-x

• 1.

  CAS Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Centre for Biosafety Mega-Sciences, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430071, China

• 2.

  University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

• 3.

  Jiangxia District Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, 430200, China

• Corresponding author: Junping Yu, yujp@wh.iov.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-9024-0793
  Hongping Wei, hpwei@wh.iov.cn, ORCID: 0000-0002-9948-8880