Asthma Microbiome Studies and the Potential for New Therapeutic Strategies

• Published in: Current allergy and asthma reports Vol. 13; no. 5; pp. 453 - 461
• Main Author: Huang, Yvonne J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.10.2013; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Allergology; Animals; Asthma (Wj Calhoun and Sp Peters; Asthma - immunology; Asthma - microbiology; Asthma - therapy; Early Intervention (Education); Gastrointestinal Tract - microbiology; Humans; Lung - microbiology; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Microbiota; Neutrophils - immunology; Section Editors; Therapy; 16S ribosomal RNA; Treatment-resistant asthma; Microarray; Respiratory microbiota; Sequencing; Asthma; Microbiome

Recent applications of culture-independent tools for microbiome profiling have revealed significant relationships between asthma and microbiota associated with the environment, gut, or airways. Studies of the airway microbiome in particular represent a new frontier in pulmonary research. Although th...