Study of Microbiological Diversity in Exhaled Air in COPD and Free of COPD

The subjects will be recruited during a medical visit in the Departments of Pneumology and Occupational and Environmental Pathologies.

After information and inclusion of the subject in the study, a collection of clinical data, the state of health and the smoking status of the subject will be carried out by the clinical study technician.

A collection of the exhalation will also be carried out by the clinical study technician.

Several groups of subjects will be formed according to pathologies (COPD versus non-COPD), age and smoking status

Inclusion criteria

For COPD:

• Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Age: over 18

For non-COPD

• Absence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Age: between 18 and 30 years old and between 45 and 70 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Taking certain medications in the month preceding the sample (antibiotics, systemic corticosteroids, immunosuppressants)
• Person under guardianship or curatorship
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women
• Person unable to express his/her opposition, person deprived of liberty
• Existence of a chronic infectious pulmonary pathology such as (dilation of the bronchi, cystic fibrosis)