Table 1.

Microorganisms present in LC patients (oncobiome of lung cancer patients).

Microorganism	Interaction	References
Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Suspected initiation and proliferation, colonization	Pilaniya et al. (2016), Cameron et al. (2017), Mao et al. (2018), Poore et al. (2020)
Staphylococcus genera. Species like epidermis and aureus	Colonization	Cameron et al. (2017), Poore et al. (2020)
Propionibacterium acnes	Colonization	Poore et al. (2020)
Ralstonia spp.	Colonization	Poore et al. (2020)
Pseudomonas	Suspected initiation and proliferation, colonization	Poore et al. (2020)
Acinetobacter	Colonization	Cameron et al. (2017), Poore et al. (2020)
Haemophilus influenzae	Colonization	Laroumagne et al. (2011), Mao et al. (2018)
Enterobacter spp.	Colonization	Laroumagne et al. (2011), Mao et al. (2018)
Escherichia coli	Colonization	Laroumagne et al. (2011), Mao et al. (2018)
Granulicatella	Colonization	Yan et al. (2015), Cameron et al. (2017), Mao et al. (2018)
Abriotrophia	Colonization	Yan et al. (2015), Mao et al. (2018)
Streptococcus	Colonization	Yan et al. (2015), Cameron et al. (2017), Mao et al. (2018), Tsay et al. (2018)
Capnocytophaga	Colonization	Hosgood et al. (2014), Yan et al. (2015), Mao et al. (2018)
Selenomonas	Colonization	Yan et al. (2015), Mao et al. (2018)
Veillonella	Colonization	Hosgood et al. (2014), Yan et al. (2015), Mao et al. (2018), Tsay et al. (2018), Zhao et al. (2021)
Neisseria	Colonization	Yan et al. (2015), Cameron et al. (2017), Mao et al. (2018)
Legionella	Metastasis	Yu et al. (2016), Mao et al. (2018)
Thermus	Colonization	Yu et al. (2016), Mao et al. (2018)
Enterococcus	Colonization	Cameron et al. (2017), Zhuang et al. (2019), Zhao et al. (2021)
Akkermansia muciniphila	Suspected initiation	Zhao et al. (2021)
Rhodococcus erythropolis	Colonization	Cameron et al. (2017)
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	Colonization	Cameron et al. (2017)
Acidovorax	Suspected initiation and colonization	Greathouse et al. (2018)