Human skin microbiome

Skin microbiota-associated inflammation precedes autoantibody induced tissue damage in experimental epidermolysis bullosa acquisita – Christoph T. Ellebrecht – Journal of Autoimmunity

Human stomach and gut microbiome

Review: The stomach in health and disease – R H Hunt – Gut

Review: Intestinal microbiota and ulcerative colitis – Toshifumi Ohkusa – Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Animal microbiome

Cryptic diversity, reproductive isolation and cytoplasmic incompatibility in a classic biological control success story – Marco Gebiola – Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Fungal community shifts in structure and function across a boreal forest fire chronosequence – Hui Sun – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Patterns of endemism and habitat selection in coalbed microbial communities
Christopher E. Lawson – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Geogenic factors as drivers of microbial community diversity in soils overlying polymetallic deposits – Frank Reith – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Bacteriophage Following Soil Fertilization With Dairy Manure or Municipal Biosolids, and Evidence for Potential Transduction – Joseph Ross – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Water microbiome

Human-associated fecal qPCR measurements and simulated risk of gastrointestinal illness in recreational waters contaminated with raw sewage – Alexandria B. Boehm – Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Built environment microbiome

Coexistence of lactic acid bacteria and potential spoilage microbiota in a dairy-processing environment – Giuseppina Stellato – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Goodbye showers-bacteria spray improves health? – Fox2

Researchers expanding use of poliovirus for cancer treatment – Nidhila Masha – Duke Chronicle

Bacteria Advisories Issued for 18 beaches along Texas Coast – KiiiTV

Bacteria could threaten pistachios in NM – Angela Simental – Albuquerque Journal

Possible Key in Virus, Cancer Research Identified – Kathleen Haughney – Labmanager

Bacteria Hysteria

Faecal matter on the TV remote, bodily fluids on bed linens and drinking glasses wiped with a filthy cloth: The dirtiest areas of a hotel room revealed – Chris Kitching – Daily Mail

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