Tobacco use, self-reported professional dental cleaning habits, and lung adenocarcinoma diagnosis are associated with bronchial and lung microbiome alpha diversity

The lung microbiome is an inflammatory stimulus whose role in the development of lung malignancies is incompletely understood. We hypothesized that the lung microbiome associates with multiple clinical factors...

Source: Respiratory Research - March 18, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Alexa A. Pragman, Shane W. Hodgson, Tianhua Wu, Allison Zank, Rosemary F. Kelly, Cavan S. Reilly and Chris H. Wendt Tags: Research Source Type: research