Effect of gastric fluid aspiration on the lung microbiota of laboratory rats.

CONCLUSION: In a laboratory rat model, aspiration with gastric fluid caused a substantial shift of the lung microbiota that could be characterized as a shift from Proteobacteria towards Firmicutes, possibly of enteric origin. Bacteria contained in the gastric fluid are not apparently responsible for this change. PMID: 30465452 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental Lung Research - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Exp Lung Res Source Type: research