The composition of the pulmonary microbiota in sarcoidosis

The composition of the pulmonary microbiota in sarcoidosis–an observational study. Becker, A., Vella, G., Galata, V., Rentz, K., Beisswenger, C., Herr, C., Walter, J., Tierling, S., Slevogt, H., Keller, A., & Bals, R. Respiratory research, 20:46, BioMed Central, 2019.
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Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown etiology. The disease mechanisms are largely speculative and may include the role microbial patterns that initiate and drive an underlying immune process. The aim of this study was to characterize the microbiota of the lung of patients with sarcoidosis and compare its composition and diversity with the results from patients with other interstitial lung disease (ILD) and historic healthy controls. Patients (sarcoidosis, n = 31; interstitial lung disease, n = 19) were recruited within the PULMOHOM study, a prospective cohort study to characterize inflammatory processes in pulmonary diseases. Bronchoscopy of the middle lobe or the lingula was performed and the recovered fluid was immediately sent for analysis of the pulmonary microbiota by 16sRNA gene sequencing. Subsequent bioinformatic analysis was performed to compare the groups. There were no significant differences between patients with sarcoidosis or other ILDs with regard to microbiome composition and diversity. In addition, the abundance of the genera Atopobium, Fusobacterium, Mycobacterium or Propionibacterium were not different between the two groups. There were no gross differences to historical healthy controls. The analysis of the pulmonary microbiota based on 16sRNA gene sequencing did not show a significant dysbiosis in patients with sarcoidosis as compared to other ILD patients. These data do not exclude a microbiological component in the pathogenesis of sarcoidosis.

@Article{Becker2019,
  author       = {André Becker and Giovanna Vella and Valentina Galata and Katharina Rentz and Christoph Beisswenger and Christian Herr and Jörn Walter and Sascha Tierling and Hortense Slevogt and Andreas Keller and Robert Bals},
  title        = {The composition of the pulmonary microbiota in sarcoidosis–an observational study},
  journal      = {Respiratory research},
  publisher    = {BioMed Central},
  year         = {2019},
  volume       = {20},
  issue        = {1},
  pages        = {46},
  issn         = {46},
  issn-linking = {46},
  abstract     = {Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown etiology. The disease mechanisms are largely speculative and may include the role microbial patterns that initiate and drive an underlying immune process. The aim of this study was to characterize the microbiota of the lung of patients with sarcoidosis and compare its composition and diversity with the results from patients with other interstitial lung disease (ILD) and historic healthy controls. Patients (sarcoidosis, n = 31; interstitial lung disease, n = 19) were recruited within the PULMOHOM study, a prospective cohort study to characterize inflammatory processes in pulmonary diseases. Bronchoscopy of the middle lobe or the lingula was performed and the recovered fluid was immediately sent for analysis of the pulmonary microbiota by 16sRNA gene sequencing. Subsequent bioinformatic analysis was performed to compare the groups. There were no significant differences between patients with sarcoidosis or other ILDs with regard to microbiome composition and diversity. In addition, the abundance of the genera Atopobium, Fusobacterium, Mycobacterium or Propionibacterium were not different between the two groups. There were no gross differences to historical healthy controls. The analysis of the pulmonary microbiota based on 16sRNA gene sequencing did not show a significant dysbiosis in patients with sarcoidosis as compared to other ILD patients. These data do not exclude a microbiological component in the pathogenesis of sarcoidosis.},
  doi          = {10.1186/s12931-019-1013-2},
  pii          = {10.1186/s12931-019-1013-2},
}

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