Our understanding of the existence and role of the lung microbiome has grown at a slower pace than other microbiome research areas. This is likely a consequence of the original dogma that the lung was a sterile environment although there are other barriers that are worth discussing. Here we will not be conducting an exhaustive review of the current literature on the lung microbiome, but rather we will focus on what we see as some important challenges that the field needs to face in order to improve our mechanistic understanding of the lung microbiome and its role on human health.

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肺微生物组研究的前景。

与其他微生物组研究领域相比，我们对肺微生物组的存在和作用的理解以较慢的速度增长。这可能是最初的教条的结果，即肺是一个无菌环境，尽管还有其他值得讨论的障碍。在这里，我们不会对当前关于肺微生物组的文献进行详尽的回顾，而是将重点放在我们认为该领域需要面对的一些重要挑战上，以提高我们对肺微生物组及其机制的理解。对人类健康的作用。