Sputum Microbiome and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Rural Ugandan Cohort of Well-Controlled HIV Infection
Alex Kayongo, Theda Ulrike Patricia Bartolomaeus, Till Birkner, Lajos Markó, Ulrike Löber, Edgar Kigozi, Carolyne Atugonza, Richard Munana, et al. (23 authors)
Microbiology Spectrum · 2023-02
Abstract
Even with ART available, HIV-infected individuals are at high risk of suffering comorbidities, as shown by the high prevalence of noninfectious lung diseases in the HIV population. Recent studies have suggested a role for the respiratory microbiota in driving chronic lung inflammation.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Sputum
- Microbiome
- COPD
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Immunology
- Population
- Cohort
- Pulmonary disease
- Lung infection
- Cohort study
- Lung
- Obstructive lung disease