title: The emerging relationship between the airway microbiota and chronic respiratory disease: clinical implications.
abstract: Until recently, relationships between evidence of colonization or infection by specific microbial species and the development, persistence or exacerbation of pulmonary disease have informed our opinions of airway microbiology. However, recent applications of culture-independent tools for microbiome profiling have revealed a more diverse microbiota than previously recognized in the airways of patients with chronic pulmonary disease. New evidence indicates that the composition of airway microbiota differs in states of health and disease and with severity of symptoms and that the microbiota, as a collective entity, may contribute to pathophysiologic processes associated with chronic airway disease. Here, we review the evolution of airway microbiology studies of chronic pulmonary disease, focusing on asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis. Building on evidence derived from traditional microbiological approaches and more recent culture-independent microbiome studies, we discuss the implications of recent findings on potential microbial determinants of respiratory health or disease.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, Med Sci S357, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
authors.forename: Yvonne J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Susan V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Lynch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001249:Asthma / Q000382:microbiology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology
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