From: The microbiome of the upper respiratory tract in health and disease
Study | Population | Sample site | Actinobacteria | Bacteroidetes | Firmicutes | Proteobacteria |
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Charlson et al. 2010 [87] | Adult | Nasopharynx | ↓Actinomycetaceae ↓Corynebacteriaceae ↓Coriobacteriaceae ↑Eggerthella | ↓Flexibacteriaceae ↓Flavobacteriaceae ↑Porphyromonadaceae | ↓Leuconostocaceae ↑Erysipelotrichaceae ↑Aerococcaceae ↑Eubacteriaceae ↑Incertae Sedis XIII ↑Peptostreptococcaceae ↑Ruminococcaceae ↑Lachnospiraceae I.S. spp. ↑Anaerovorax ↑Dorea ↑Erysipelotrichaceae I.S. ↑Eubacterium spp. ↑Abiotrophia spp. | ↓Rhodocyclaceae ↓Rhodobacteraceae ↓Enterobacteriaceae ↓Alcaligenaceae ↓Methylophilacea ↓Shigella spp. ↑Pasteurellaceae ↑Haemophilus spp. |
Brook and Gober 2005 [117] | Adult | Nasopharynx |  |  | ↑Streptococcus pneumoniae ↑Streptococcus pyogenes | ↑H. influenzae ↑M. catarrhalis |
Greenberg et al. 2006 [118] | Infants | Nasopharynx |  |  | ↑Streptococcus pneumoniae |  |
Sapkota et al. 2009 [119] | Not applicable | Cigarettes | Â | Â | Bacillus Clostridium Enterococcus Staphylococcus | Acinetobacter Burkholderia Klebsiella Pseudomonas aeruginosa Serratia Campylobacter Proteus |