Effects of intranasal flu vaccine on nose microbiota, intestinal microbiota of Dutch children, fungi in dung, optical sensors, and diurnal time scales in drinking water.

General microbiome

Review: Intestinal Microbiota and Metabolic Diseases: Pharmacological Implications – Liang Shen – Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Editorial: Immunotherapy Not Working? Check Your Microbiota – Nathan R. West – Cancer Cell

Review: Human Microbiome and Its Association With Health and Diseases – Asmaa Althani – Journal of Cellular Physiology

Infection and immunity

The microbiome of diabetic foot osteomyelitis – S. A. V. van Asten – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

A baleful weed and the king of fruits: tolerance, immunity, and the microbiome – Kairav Sinha – International Journal of Dermatology

Human oral microbiome

Salivary changes in oral mucosal diseases – Yazan Hassona – Periodontology 2000

Human respiratory microbiome

The administration of intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine induces changes in the nasal microbiota and nasal epithelium gene expression profiles – Y. Tarabichi – Microbiome

Editorial: Precision respiratory medicine and the microbiome – Geraint B Rogers – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Review: The microbiome and critical illness – Robert P Dickson – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Human urinary tract microbiome

Intracellular Bacterial Communities: A Potential Etiology for Chronic Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms – Victoria C.S. Scott – Urology

Review: The interplay of extracellular matrix and microbiome in urothelial bladder cancer – Massimo Alfano – Nature Reviews Urology

Human gut microbiome

Composition and stability of intestinal microbiota of healthy children within a Dutch population – Tim G. J. de Meij – The FASEB Journal

Long-term risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease after removal of the colonic microbiota by colectomy: a cohort study based on the Danish National Patient Register from 1996 to 2014 – Anders Boeck Jensen – BMJ Open

Adverse events in faecal microbiota transplant: a review of the literature –
M. Baxter – Journal of Hospital Infection

Editorial: Antidiabetic drug treatment confounds gut dysbiosis associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus – David Holmes – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Improved taxonomic assignment of human intestinal 16S rRNA sequences by a dedicated reference database – Jarmo Ritari – BMC Genomics

Microbiome models

Response of gut microbiota to salinity change in two euryhaline aquatic animals with reverse salinity preference – Meiling Zhang – Aquaculture

Destabilization of the gut microbiome marks the end-stage of simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild chimpanzees – Hannah J. Barbian – American Journal of Primatology

Non-lethal Inhibition of Gut Microbial Trimethylamine Production for the Treatment of Atherosclerosis – Zeneng Wang – Cell

Editorial: Immunotherapy Meets Microbiota – Jiaying Tan – Cell

Editorial: Drug the Bug! – Annika Lindskog Jonsson – Cell

Functional anatomy of the colonic bioreactor: Impact of antibiotics and Saccharomyces boulardii on bacterial composition in human fecal cylinders – Alexander Swidsinski – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

The Murine Lung Microbiome Changes During Lung Inflammation and Intranasal Vancomycin Treatment – Kenneth Klingenberg Barfod – The Open Microbiology Journal

Animal microbiome

Biogeographic variation in the microbiome of the ecologically important sponge, Carteriospongia foliascens – Heidi M. Luter – PeerJ

Review: Dung-inhabiting fungi: a potential reservoir of novel secondary metabolites for the control of plant pathogens – Sabrina Sarrocco – Pest Management Science

Book Chapter: Age-Related Variation in the Scent Pouch Bacterial Communities of Striped Hyenas (Hyaena hyaena) – Kevin R. Theis – Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 13

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of chemical and biological pesticides on plant growth parameters and rhizospheric bacterial community structure in Vigna radiata – Sunil Singh – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Experimental Evidence that Fungi are Dominant Microbes in Carbon Content and Growth Response to Added Soluble Organic Carbon in Moss-rich Tundra Soil – O. Roger Anderson

Fertilizing with Animal Manure Disseminates Antibiotic Resistance Genes to the Farm Environment – Matti Ruuskanen – Journal of Environmental Quality

Water microbiome

Microbiology: lessons from a first attempt at Lake Ellsworth – D. A. Pearce – Philosophical Transactions A

Comprehensive genomic analyses of the OM43 clade including a novel species from Red Sea indicate ecotype differentiation among marine methylotrophs – Francy Jimenez-Infante – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Exposure to culturable and total microbiota in cultural heritage conservation laboratories – Rafał L. Górny – Int J Occup Med Environ Health

The impact of sampling, PCR, and sequencing replication on discerning changes in drinking water bacterial community over diurnal time-scales – Quyen Melina Bautista-de los Santos – Water Research

Food microbiology

The impact of yeast starter cultures on the microbial communities and volatile compounds in cocoa fermentation and the resulting sensory attributes of chocolate – Nádia Nara Batista – Journal of Food Science and Technology

Techniques

Optical sensors for sensing microbial life on a surface – M. Fischer – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Metagenomes, viruses, and bioinformatics

Rise of Microbial Culturomics: Noncontiguous Finished Genome Sequence and Description of Beduini massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov. – Gaël Mourembou – OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

A metagenomic approach from aphid’s hemolymph sheds light on the potential roles of co-existing endosymbionts – Caroline De Clerck – Microbiome

MeFiT: Merging and Filtering Tool for Illumina Paired-End Reads for 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing – Hardik I. Parikh – ArXiv

Putative bacterial interactions from metagenomic knowledge with an integrative systems ecology approach – Philippe Bordron – MicrobiologyOpen

What Can We Learn from a Metagenomic Analysis of a Georgian Bacteriophage Cocktail?
Henrike Zschach – Viruses

MEEPTOOLS: A maximum expected error based FASTQ read filtering and trimming toolkit – Vishal N. Koparde – Arxiv

Microbes in the news

Book review: I, superorganism – learning to love your inner ecosystem – Jon Turney

Science, publishing, and career

South Korean professors charged over alleged plagiarism scheme: Prosecutors accuse academics of colluding with publishers to boost their standing and sell more books – David Matthews – Times Higher Education
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