A short digest for Sunday morning. Few interesting gut microbiome articles and Time magazine cover story about the next pandemic and novel detection technologies.
General microbiome
Antibiotics in a general population: Relations with gender, body mass index (BMI) and age and their human health risks – Sisi Liu -Science of the Total Environment
Human gut microbiome
A Clostridium difficile-Specific, Gel-Forming Protein Required for Optimal Spore Germination – ML Donnelly – MBio
The intestinal microbiome and paediatric liver disease – Daniel H Leung, MD – The Lancet
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Review: Communication in the Phytobiome – Jan E. Leach – Cell
Food microbiology
The impact of nutrition on intestinal bacterial communities – Harry J Flint – Current opinion in Microbiology
Large-scale targeted metagenomics analysis of bacterial ecological changes in 88 kimchi samples during fermentation – Moeun Lee – Food microbiology
Probiotics / prebiotics
Designer probiotics for the prevention and treatment of human diseases – Koon Jiew Chua – Current opinion in chemical biology
Microbes in the news
Time magazine: The world is not ready for the next pandemic
Researchers find link between gut microbiome, osteoarthritis pain