The airway fungal microbiome in asthma.
Eva-Maria RickKerry F WoolnoughPaul J SeearAbbie FairsJack SatchwellMatthew RichardsonWilliam R MonteiroMichelle CranerMichelle BourneAndrew John WardlawCatherine Helen PashleyPublished in: Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2020)
The airway mycobiota was dominated by a relatively small number of species, but was distinct from the oropharyngeal mycobiota and air samples. Members of the A. niger and C. humicola species complexes may play unexpected roles in the pathogenesis of asthma.