%0 Journal Article
%T Determinants of the Nasal Microbiome: Pilot Study of Effects of
Intranasal Medication Use
%A Charles E. Robertson
%A Daniel N. Frank
%A Diana Ir
%A Justin Holt
%A Leah F. Nelson
%A Vijay R. Ramakrishnan
%J Archive of "Allergy & Rhinology".
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2152656718789519
%X A role for bacteria and other microbes has long been suspected in the chronic inflammatory sinonasal diseases. Recent studies utilizing culture-independent, sequence-based identification have demonstrated aberrant shifts in the sinus microbiota of chronic rhinosinusitis subjects, compared with ostensibly healthy controls. Examining how such microbiota shifts occur and the potential for physician-prescribed interventions to influence microbiota dynamics are the topics of the current article
%K rhinitis
%K sinusitis
%K nasal steroid
%K anterior nares
%K bacteria
%K microbiome
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6088474/