Discover the review “From culturomics to metagenomics: the mycobiome in chronic respiratory diseases” by Louise-Eva Vandenborght, PHD student at GenoScreen, in the ERS Monograph n°83 on “The Lung Microbiome” !
This chapter focuses on the mycobiome in the context of CRDs and reviews the patient populations risk, advances in the laboratory tools used to diagnose fungal respiratory disease ranging from conventional methods (culturomics) to NGS approaches (targeted metagenomics), and the concept of the "fungal exposome"
The ERS Monograph is the quarterly book series from the European Respiratory Society. Each Monograph covers a specific area of respiratory medicine, providing in-depth reviews that give clinicians at all levels a concise, comprehensive guide to symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.