The Role of the Respiratory Microbiome in the Pathogenesis of Aspiration Pneumonia: Implications for Diagnosis and Potential Therapeutic Choices

• Main Authors: Natalia G. Vallianou (Author), Alexandros Skourtis (Author), Dimitris Kounatidis (Author), Evangelia Margellou (Author), Fotis Panagopoulos (Author), Eleni Geladari (Author), Angelos Evangelopoulos (Author), Edison Jahaj (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Although the lungs were considered to be sterile until recently, the advent of molecular biology techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction, 16 S rRNA sequencing and metagenomics has led to our expanding knowledge of the lung microbiome. These methods may be particularly useful for the identifica...