Lower airway microbiota in patients with clinically suspected Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease

We tried to put some light on the relationship between Non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease and lower airway microbiota, based on clinical characterization of the patients and 16s rRNA sequencing. The results reported Other than the genus Pseudomonas, there was no clear difference in the composition of and no significant difference in the diversity of the bacterial flora between the Mycobacterium Avium Complex-Lung Disease (MAC-LD) and non-MAC-LD groups. We found that the genus Pseudomonas and Mycobacterium Avium Complex tended to exist exclusively.