Host-microbiome interactions in acute and chronic respiratory infections

Steven L. Taylor, Steven Wesselingh, Geraint Rogers

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    Abstract

    Respiratory infection is a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. Understanding the factors that influence risk and outcome of these infections is essential to improving care. We increasingly understand that interactions between the microbial residents of our mucosal surfaces and host regulatory systems is fundamental to shaping local and systemic immunity. These mechanisms are most well defined in the gastrointestinal tract, however analogous systems also occur in the airways. Moreover, we now appreciate that the host-microbiota interactions at a given mucosal surface influence systemic host processes, in turn, affecting the course of infection at other anatomical sites. This review discusses the mechanisms by which the respiratory microbiome influences acute and chronic airway disease and examines the contribution of cross-talk between the gastrointestinal and respiratory compartments to microbe-mucosa interactions.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)652-662
    Number of pages11
    JournalCELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
    Volume18
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2016

    Keywords

    • microbiome
    • interactions
    • respiratory infections
    • microbes
    • microbial systems

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