The composition of the species of bacteria that are responsible for inhabiting bronchial airways, have a relationship with asthma and a new UCSF-led study that finds this states that it is surprising.

The common inflammatory disease can see a new treatment that is more effective following this finding.

The new detection methods stated that as compared to previously thought, the scope of diversity of microbes inside the respiratory tract is more and this is behind a complex and inter-connected microbial neighborhood that is created and there has been an association with asthma and various other things even obesity.

Study co-author Homer Boushey, MD, a UCSF professor of medicine in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, said, “People thought that asthma was caused by inhalation of allergens but this study shows that it may be more complicated than that – asthma may involve colonization of the airways by multiple bacteria.”

About 65 adults were included in a study that was for concluding this and samples from their airway lining were taken. These adults had symptoms of asthma that ranged from mild to moderate and 10 healthy subjects were also included in the study.

Once they were done with the samples, they looked at patients’ asthma’s relationships between bacterial community composition and clinical characteristics.

As compared to healthy people, the researchers found, far more bacteria were seen in bronchial airway samples from asthmatic patients.