Abstract
In the late 1990s, molecular microbial system analytics started to be adapted and applied to chronic lung disease [1, 2]. These approaches revealed microbial diversity in respiratory samples that included many bacterial species more usually associated with the oropharynx (box 1 and figure 1). While contamination of samples by oropharyngeal microbes might account for a portion of these taxa, evidence also emerged that some of these species were proliferating within the lower airways under certain circumstances [3, 4].
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2302281 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | European Respiratory Journal |
Volume | 63 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2024 |
Keywords
- microbiome
- chronic lung disease
- non-classical
- molecular
- microbial
- respiratory