TY - JOUR T1 - Inflammation, age and changing microbiology: the search for causation in the cystic fibrosis airways JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.01935-2017 VL - 50 IS - 5 SP - 1701935 AU - Geraint B. Rogers Y1 - 2017/11/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/50/5/1701935.abstract N2 - Since the first reports of bacterial lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) almost 80 years ago, concerted efforts have been made to identify the microbes responsible and to determine their contribution to lung disease. However, while CF respiratory microbiology has helped to shape clinical practice, our understanding of the relationships between microbial colonisation of the lung, inflammation and disease remains relatively poor.A survey of CF BALF reports lung microbiota to vary with age and inflammation but causality remains hard to pin down http://ow.ly/hEjX30fVMoL ER -