The bacterial microbiota: implications for health and disease - joint session with the World Allergy Organisation

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Chairs: R. Pawankar (Tokyo, Japan), M. Decramer (Leuven, Belgium)
Aims: An understanding of the latest findings concerning the microbiome and its implications for lung diseases. A critical perspective of whether the microbiome should be considered in clinical practice and basic research.

Significance of the microbiome in obstructive lung disease: where to from here? W. Cookson (London, United Kingdom)
The consequences of microbiome and pathogen dynamics for chronic lung diseases G. Huffnagle (Ann Arbour, United States of America)