Today, a short Digest but with interesting features: effects of intestinal cleanout on microbiota, changes in K vitamin derivatives in human, reviews about Streptococcus group B and effect of FMT on Clostridium difficile, and more.

Human microbiome

Multidomain analyses of a longitudinal human microbiome intestinal cleanout perturbation experiment – Julia Fukuyama – PLoS Computational Biology

Research Highlight: Gut microbiota: Gas-induced GLP1 release – David Holmes – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Maternal obesity is associated with gut microbial metabolic potential in offspring during infancy  – Tomás Cerdó – Journal of Physiology and Biochemistry

Fecal concentrations of bacterially derived vitamin K forms are associated with gut microbiota composition but not plasma or fecal cytokine concentrations in healthy adults – J Philip Karl – The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Temporal Stability of the Healthy Human Skin Microbiome Following Dead Sea Climatotherapy – Michael Brandwein – Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Review: Intrinsic Maturational Neonatal Immune Deficiencies and Susceptibility to Group B Streptococcus Infection – Michelle L. Korira – Clinical Microbiological Reviews

Systematic review: Faecal microbiota transplantation for Clostridium difficile infection: a multicentre study of non-responders – Paul Moayyedi – Medical Journal of Australia

 

Forensic microbiome

Daily thanatomicrobiome changes in soil as an approach of postmortem interval estimation: An ecological perspective – Joe Adserias Garriga – Forensic Science International

 

Animal microbiome

Correlations of age and growth rate with microbiota composition in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) larvae – Ly T. T. Trinh – Scientific Reports

Microbial community composition along the digestive tract in forage- and grain-fed bison – Gaddy T. Bergmann – BMC Veterinary Research

The effect of storage at ambient temperature on the feline fecal microbiota – Moran Tal – BMC Veterinary Research

Performance, biochemical and haematological responses, and relative organ weights of laying hens fed diets supplemented with prebiotic, probiotic and synbiotic  – Shirley Gee Hoon Tang – BMC Veterinary Research

Mosapride Stabilizes Intestinal Microbiota to Reduce Bacterial Translocation and Endotoxemia in CCl4-Induced Cirrhotic Rats – Hong Xu – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Transition of the intestinal microbiota of cats with age – Hiroaki Masuoka – PLoS ONE

 

Pathogen research

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Enterobacter cloacae subsp. cloacae Strains Isolated from Australian Hematology Patients with Bacteremia – Lex E. X. Leonga – Genome Announcements

The impact of the Staphylococcus aureus virulome on infection in a developing country: a cohort study – Marthe Lebughe – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

 

Bioactive compounds

Regulative effects of curcumin spice administration on gut microbiota and its pharmacological implications – Liang Shen – Food & Nutrition Research

Identification of Secondary Metabolite Gene Clusters in the Pseudovibrio Genus Reveals Encouraging Biosynthetic Potential toward the Production of Novel Bioactive Compounds – Lynn M. Naughton – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Other

Characterizing a thermostable Cas9 for bacterial genome editing and silencing – Ioannis Mougiakos – BioRxiv

Determination of geochemical bio-signatures in Mars-like basaltic environments – Karen Olsson-Francis – Frontiers in Microbiology