Encrustations on ureteral stents from patients without urinary tract infection reveal distinct urotypes and a low bacterial load.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of culture-independent nucleic acid techniques, such as ribosomal RNA gene cloning library analysis, has unveiled the tremendous microbial diversity that exists in natural environments. In sharp contrast to this great achievement is the current difficulty in cultivating the majority of bacterial spec...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Gao W,Navarroli D,Naimark J,Zhang W,Chao SH,Meldrum DR

更新日期：2013-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The human microbiome refers to the genetic composition of microorganisms in a particular location in the human body. Emerging evidence over the past many years suggests that the microbiome constitute drivers of human fate almost at par with our genome and epigenome. It is now well accepted after decades of disbelief t...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Silverstein RB,Mysorekar IU

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The microbial populations of the human intestinal tract and their relationship to specific diseases have been extensively studied during the last decade. However, the characterization of the human bile microbiota as a whole has been hampered by difficulties in accessing biological samples and the lack of ade...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Molinero N,Ruiz L,Milani C,Gutiérrez-Díaz I,Sánchez B,Mangifesta M,Segura J,Cambero I,Campelo AB,García-Bernardo CM,Cabrera A,Rodríguez JI,González S,Rodríguez JM,Ventura M,Delgado S,Margolles A

更新日期：2019-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput amplicon sequencing spanning conserved portions of microbial genomes (16s rRNA and ITS) was used in the present study to describe the endophytic microbiota associated with three apple varieties, "Royal Gala," "Golden Delicious," and "Honey Crisp," and two rootstocks, M.9 and M.M.111. The obje...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Liu J,Abdelfattah A,Norelli J,Burchard E,Schena L,Droby S,Wisniewski M

更新日期：2018-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of the rumen is an important physiological challenge for young ruminants. Previous studies have shown that starter feeding can effectively facilitate the growth and development of the rumen in ruminants. However, the mechanism through which starter feeding stimulates the development of the ru...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Lin L,Xie F,Sun D,Liu J,Zhu W,Mao S

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The nasopharynx is a reservoir for pathogens associated with respiratory illnesses, such as asthma. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been used to characterize the nasopharyngeal microbiome during health and disease. Most studies so far have surveyed the nasopharynx as a whole; however, less is known abou...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Pérez-Losada M,Crandall KA,Freishtat RJ

更新日期：2016-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and shows promise for treating other medical conditions associated with intestinal dysbioses. However, we lack a sufficient understanding of which microbial populations successfully colonize the rec...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Lee STM,Kahn SA,Delmont TO,Shaiber A,Esen ÖC,Hubert NA,Morrison HG,Antonopoulos DA,Rubin DT,Eren AM

更新日期：2017-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sub-therapeutic antibiotics are widely used as growth promoters in the poultry industry; however, the resulting antibiotic resistance threatens public health. A plant-derived growth promoter, Macleaya cordata extract (MCE), with effective ingredients of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, is a potential alternativ...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Huang P,Zhang Y,Xiao K,Jiang F,Wang H,Tang D,Liu D,Liu B,Liu Y,He X,Liu H,Liu X,Qing Z,Liu C,Huang J,Ren Y,Yun L,Yin L,Lin Q,Zeng C,Su X,Yuan J,Lin L,Hu N,Cao H,Huang S,Guo Y,Fan W,Zeng J

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Immigration is a process that can influence the assembly of microbial communities in natural and engineered environments. However, it remains challenging to quantitatively evaluate the contribution of this process to the microbial diversity and function in the receiving ecosystems. Currently used methods, i.e., counti...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Mei R,Liu WT

更新日期：2019-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ecological consequences of mercury (Hg) pollution-one of the major pollutants worldwide-on microbial taxonomic and functional attributes remain poorly understood and largely unexplored. Using soils from two typical Hg-impacted regions across China, here, we evaluated the role of Hg pollution in regulatin...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Liu YR,Delgado-Baquerizo M,Bi L,Zhu J,He JZ

更新日期：2018-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given their adaptation to nutrient-poor and drought environments, cycads are vital models for plant-microbiome interaction research because they are likely to host an important reservoir of beneficial microbes that may support cycad survival. However, a comprehensive understanding of the diversity and commun...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Zheng Y,Gong X

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural gas contains methane and the gaseous alkanes ethane, propane and butane, which collectively influence atmospheric chemistry and cause global warming. Methane-oxidising bacteria, methanotrophs, are crucial in mitigating emissions of methane as they oxidise most of the methane produced in soils and the...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Farhan Ul Haque M,Crombie AT,Ensminger SA,Baciu C,Murrell JC

更新日期：2018-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intestinal microbiota restoration can be achieved by complementing a subject's perturbed microbiota with that of a healthy donor. Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) is one key application of such treatment. Another emerging application of interest is reducing antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Kwak S,Choi J,Hink T,Reske KA,Blount K,Jones C,Bost MH,Sun X,Burnham CD,Dubberke ER,Dantas G,CDC Prevention Epicenter Program.

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Taxonomic profiles of vaginal microbial communities can be sorted into a discrete number of categories termed community state types (CSTs). This approach is advantageous because collapsing a hyper-dimensional taxonomic profile into a single categorical variable enables efforts such as data exploration, epide...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： France MT,Ma B,Gajer P,Brown S,Humphrys MS,Holm JB,Waetjen LE,Brotman RM,Ravel J

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early disruption of the microbial community may influence life-long health. Environmental toxicants can contaminate breast milk and the developing infant gut microbiome is directly exposed. We investigated whether environmental toxicants in breastmilk affect the composition and function of the infant gut mic...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Iszatt N,Janssen S,Lenters V,Dahl C,Stigum H,Knight R,Mandal S,Peddada S,González A,Midtvedt T,Eggesbø M

更新日期：2019-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several biotic and abiotic factors have been reported to influence the proliferation of microbes, including Legionella pneumophila, in hot water premise plumbing systems, but their combined effects have not been systematically evaluated. Here, we utilize simulated household water heaters to examine the effec...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Proctor CR,Dai D,Edwards MA,Pruden A

更新日期：2017-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-throughput bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing followed by clustering of short sequences into operational taxonomic units (OTUs) is widely used for microbiome profiling. However, clustering of short 16S rRNA gene reads into biologically meaningful OTUs is challenging, in part because nucleotide variation...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Franzén O,Hu J,Bao X,Itzkowitz SH,Peter I,Bashir A

更新日期：2015-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enteric fermentation by farmed ruminant animals is a major source of methane and constitutes the second largest anthropogenic contributor to global warming. Reducing methane emissions from ruminants is needed to ensure sustainable animal production in the future. Methane yield varies naturally in sheep and i...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Kamke J,Kittelmann S,Soni P,Li Y,Tavendale M,Ganesh S,Janssen PH,Shi W,Froula J,Rubin EM,Attwood GT

更新日期：2016-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The vaginal microbiota plays a significant role in health and disease of the female reproductive tract. Next-generation sequencing techniques based upon the analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA genes permit in-depth study of vaginal microbial community structure to a level of detail not possible with standard culture-based ...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Mitra A,MacIntyre DA,Marchesi JR,Lee YS,Bennett PR,Kyrgiou M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metallo-β-lactamases are bacterial enzymes that provide resistance to carbapenems, the most potent class of antibiotics. These enzymes are commonly encoded on mobile genetic elements, which, together with their broad substrate spectrum and lack of clinically useful inhibitors, make them a particularly proble...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Berglund F,Marathe NP,Österlund T,Bengtsson-Palme J,Kotsakis S,Flach CF,Larsson DGJ,Kristiansson E

更新日期：2017-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in Fig. 2. The original Fig. 2 has been incorrectly replaced with the Supplementary Fig. 2. The correct Fig. 2 is presented here. ...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Armstrong AJS,Shaffer M,Nusbacher NM,Griesmer C,Fiorillo S,Schneider JM,Neff CP,Li SX,Fontenot AP,Campbell T,Palmer BE,Lozupone CA

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:pH is frequently reported as the main driver for prokaryotic community structure in soils. However, pH changes are also linked to "spillover effects" on other chemical parameters (e.g., availability of Al, Fe, Mn, Zn, and Cu) and plant growth, but these indirect effects on the microbial communities are rarel...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Lammel DR,Barth G,Ovaskainen O,Cruz LM,Zanatta JA,Ryo M,de Souza EM,Pedrosa FO

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are recognized as hotspots for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Despite our understanding of the composition and distribution of ARGs in WWTPs, the genetic location, host, and fate of ARGs remain largely unknown. RESULTS:In this study,...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Che Y,Xia Y,Liu L,Li AD,Yang Y,Zhang T

更新日期：2019-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is a major contributor to respiratory failure requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation. LRTI also occurs during mechanical ventilation, increasing the morbidity and mortality of intubated patients. We sought to understand the dynamics of respiratory tract micro...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Kelly BJ,Imai I,Bittinger K,Laughlin A,Fuchs BD,Bushman FD,Collman RG

更新日期：2016-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health. Microorganisms equipped with AMR genes are suggested to have partially emerged from natural habitats; however, this hypothesis remains inconclusive so far. To understand the consequences of the introduction of exogenic antimicrobials into nat...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Wicaksono WA,Kusstatscher P,Erschen S,Reisenhofer-Graber T,Grube M,Cernava T,Berg G

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of the gut microbiome in arresting pathogen colonization and growth is important for protection against Clostridium difficile infection (CDI). Observational studies associate proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use and CDI incidence. We hypothesized that PPI use affected the distal gut microbiome over time,...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Seto CT,Jeraldo P,Orenstein R,Chia N,DiBaise JK

更新日期：2014-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In microbiome studies, it is important to detect taxa which are associated with pathological outcomes at the lowest definable taxonomic rank, such as genus or species. Traditionally, taxa at the target rank are tested for individual association, followed by the Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure to control fo...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Hu J,Koh H,He L,Liu M,Blaser MJ,Li H

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dental plaque is composed of hundreds of bacterial taxonomic units and represents one of the most diverse and stable microbial ecosystems associated with the human body. Taxonomic composition and functional capacity of mature plaque is gradually shaped during several stages of community assembly via processe...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Edlund A,Yang Y,Yooseph S,He X,Shi W,McLean JS

更新日期：2018-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The photic zone of aquatic habitats is subjected to strong physicochemical gradients. To analyze the fine-scale variations in the marine microbiome, we collected seven samples from a single offshore location in the Mediterranean at 15 m depth intervals during a period of strong stratification, as well as two...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Haro-Moreno JM,López-Pérez M,de la Torre JR,Picazo A,Camacho A,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our view of host-associated microbiota remains incomplete due to the presence of as yet uncultured constituents. The Bacteroidales family S24-7 is a prominent example of one of these groups. Marker gene surveys indicate that members of this family are highly localized to the gastrointestinal tracts of homeot...

journal_title：Microbiome

authors： Ormerod KL,Wood DL,Lachner N,Gellatly SL,Daly JN,Parsons JD,Dal'Molin CG,Palfreyman RW,Nielsen LK,Cooper MA,Morrison M,Hansbro PM,Hugenholtz P

更新日期：2016-07-07 00:00:00