Human Microbiome

The Effect of Lean-Seafood and Non-Seafood Diets on Fecal Metabolites and Gut Microbiome: Results From a Randomized Crossover Intervention Study – Mette Schmedes – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Addendum – Invited: Gut Microbiota in Toxicological Risk Assessment of Drugs and Chemicals: The Need of Hour – Ganesan Velmurugan – Gut Microbes

Effects of different thickening agents on infant gut microbiota – C. A. González-Bermúdez – Food & Function

The Impact of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy with Duodenojejunal Bypass on Intestinal Microbiota Differs from that of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Japanese Patients with Obesity – Rieko Kikuchi – Clinical Drug Investigation

Perspective: Precision antimicrobial therapeutics: the path of least resistance? – Caitlin N. Spaulding – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes – Tyler J. Carrier – Nature Communications

Case report: Successful faecal microbiota transplant for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection delivered by colonoscopy through a diverted ileostomy in a patient with severe perianal Crohn’s disease – Jonathan Digby-Bell – BMJ Case Reports

Outlook: How baby’s first microbes could be crucial to future health – Sarah DeWeerdt – Nature

Correspondence: Bile acid–microbiota crosstalk in gastrointestinal inflammation and carcinogenesis: a role for bifidobacteria and lactobacilli? – Borja Sánchez – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Inter-niche and inter-individual variation in gut microbial community assessment using stool, rectal swab, and mucosal samples – Roshonda B. Jones – Scientific Reports

Review: Gastrointestinal toxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors: from mechanisms to management – Mark A. Samaan – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Reply: Probiotics, bile acids and gastrointestinal carcinogenesis – Wei Jia – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Genomics-Based Identification of Microorganisms in Human Ocular Body Fluid – Philipp Kirstahler – Scientific Reports

 

Animal microbiome

Performance, egg quality, nutrient digestibility, and excreta microbiota shedding in laying hens fed corn-soybean-meal-wheat-based diets supplemented with xylanase – X. J. Lei – Poultry Science

Next generation sequencing for gut microbiome characterization in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fed animal by-product meals as an alternative to fishmeal protein sources – Simona Rimoldi – Plos One

Sugary Kefir Strain Lactobacillus mali APS1 Ameliorated Hepatic Steatosis by Regulation of SIRT-1/Nrf-2 and Gut Microbiota in Rats – Yung-Tsung Chen – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Pyrroloquinoline quinone prevents developmental programming of microbial dysbiosis and macrophage polarization to attenuate liver fibrosis in offspring of obese mice – Jacob E. Friedman – Hepatology Communications

Inulin-type fructan improves diabetic phenotype and gut microbiota profiles in rats – Qian Zhang​ – PeerJ

Early-life exposure to low-dose oxidants can increase longevity via microbiome remodelling in Drosophila – Fumiaki Obata – Nature Communications

The influence of caging, bedding, and diet on the composition of the microbiota in different regions of the mouse gut – Aaron C. Ericsson – Scientific Reports

News & Views: The intestinal microbiome influences checkpoint blockade – Cynthia L Sears – Nature Medicine

News Feature: Gut checkpoint: A rising cancer treatment may get a boost from intestinal bacteria – Anna Azvolinsky – Nature Medicine

Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome – Yi Hu – Nature Communications

Research Highlight: Comparative genomics: Blood, guts and vampire bats – Linda Koch – Nature Reviews Genetics

 

Pathogen research

Serial Clustering of Late Onset Group B Streptococcal Infections in the Neonatal Unit – a Genomic Re-Evaluation of Causality – Elita Jauneikaite – Clinical Infectious Diseases

A multi-omic analysis reveals the role of fumarate in regulating the virulence of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli – Cheng-Ju Kuo – Cell Death & Disease

Occurrence of blaNDM Variants Among Enterobacteriaceae From a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in a Northern India Hospital – Nayeem Ahmad – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Food Microbes

Lactobacillus rossiae strain isolated from sourdough produces putrescine from arginine – Beatriz del Rio – Scientific Reports

 

Environmental Microbiology

Microbial diversity associated to the anaerobic sediments of a soda lake (Mono Lake, CA) – Patricia Rojas – Canadian Journal of Microbiology