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The Microbiome and the Respiratory Tract.

Annual review of physiology ·Vol. 78 ·2016-00-00 ·Pages 481-504

Dickson RP, Erb-Downward JR, Martinez FJ, Huffnagle GB

Abstract

Although the notion that "the normal lung is free from bacteria" remains common in textbooks, it is virtually always stated without citation or argument. The lungs are constantly exposed to diverse communities of microbes from the oropharynx and other sources, and over the past decade, novel culture-independent techniques of microbial identification have revealed that the lungs, previously considered sterile in health, harbor diverse communities of microbes. In this review, we describe the topography and population dynamics of the respiratory tract, both in health and as altered by acute and chronic lung disease. We provide a survey of current techniques of sampling, sequencing, and analysis of respiratory microbiota and review technical challenges and controversies in the field. We review and synthesize what is known about lung microbiota in various diseases and identify key lessons learned across disease states.

Keywords
16S rRNA culture independent lung microbial ecology microbiota pulmonary
MeSH Terms
Animals Humans Lung Diseases/microbiology Microbiota/physiology Respiratory System/microbiology
Authors & Affiliations
4 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Dickson Robert P
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; email: rodickso@med.umich.edu.
Erb-Downward John R
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; email: rodickso@med.umich.edu.
Martinez Fernando J
Department of Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065.
Huffnagle Gary B
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; email: rodickso@med.umich.edu. | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.
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Article Info
Journal
Annual review of physiology
Abbr.
Annu Rev Physiol
ISSN
1545-1585
Published
2016-00-00
Epub
2015-00-02
Pages
481-504
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
0370600
PMCID
PMC4751994
Subset
IM
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