Journal
CURRENT MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 27, Issue 18, Pages 2931-2948Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/0929867327666191213110551
Keywords
Bacteriome; COPD; microbiome; mycobiome; respiratory airway; virome
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- San Raffaele Pisana institutional grant [20/1701]
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The microbiome is the operative term to refer to a collection of all taxa constituting microbial communities, such as bacteria, archaea, fungi and protists (originall) microbiota). The micro biotne consists of the indigenous microbial communities and of the host environment that they inhabit. Actually, it has been shown that there is a close relationship between the microbiome and human health and disease condition. Although, initially, the lung was considered sterile, actually, the existence of a healthy lung microbiome is usually accepted. Lung microbiome changes are reported in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and in its exacerbation. Viral and bacterial infections of the respirator system are a major cause of COPD exacerbations (AECOPD) leading to increased local and systemic inflammation. Detection rates of virus in AECOPD are variable between 25-620 according to the detection method. The study of human airway and lung disease virome is quite recent and still very limited. The purpose of this review is to summarize recent findings on the lung microbiome composition with a special emphasis on virome in COPD and in AECOPD. Some drugs of natural origins active against resistant bacteria and virus are described.
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