Highlights!

Intestinal Bacteriophage Therapy: Looking for Optimal Efficacy – François Javaudin – Clinical Microbiology Reviews → in this review, authors discuss different aspects of the applications of bacteriophage therapy in mammals.

Wildlife symbiotic bacteria are indicators of the health status of the host and its ecosystem – Maria Bravo – Applied and Environmental Microbiology → This study highlights the role of lactic acid bacteria as an useful indicator of wildlife health status. 

High-coverage metabolomics uncovers microbiota-driven biochemical landscape of interorgan transport and gut-brain communication in mice – Yunjia Lai – Nature Communications → in this report, profile from stool, blood and brain samples were obtained comparing germ-free and conventional mice, in order to gain more insight about the microbiota-gut-brain axis.

Human and General Microbiome

Analysis of gut microbiota and metabolites in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and identification of potential biomarkers – Yumei Chen – Aging

Gut-microbiota-microglia-brain interactions in Alzheimer’s disease: knowledge-based, multi-dimensional characterization – QuanQiu Wang – Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy

Alterations in the oral microbiome in HIV infection: causes, effects and potential interventions – Shuang Li – Chinese Medical Journal

Utilization efficiency of human milk oligosaccharides by human-associated Akkermansia is strain-dependent – Estefani Luna – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Upper Respiratory Tract Microbiome of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children in Ear and Nose Health and Disease – Andrea Coleman – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: The Human Microbiome in immunobullous disorders and lichen planus – M Karimova – Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: What is unknown in using Microbiota as a Therapeutic? – Joseph Jy Sung – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Isolation and Identification of Potential Probiotic Bacteria from Human Milk – Quésia S Damaceno – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Probiotics as the live microscopic fighters against Helicobacter pylori gastric infections – Masoud Keikha – BMC Gastroenterology

The probiotic Companilactobacillus crustorum MN047 alleviates colitis-associated tumorigenesis via modulating the intestinal microenvironment – Tao Wang – Food & Function

Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Bifidobacterium longum alleviate colitis and cognitive impairment in mice by regulating IFN-γ to IL-10 and TNF-α to IL-10 expression ratios – Xiaoyang Ma – Scientific Reports

Review: Interaction between four galactans with different structural characteristics and gut microbiota – Song Li – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Habitat Disturbance Linked with Host Microbiome Dispersion and Bd Dynamics in Temperate Amphibians – Wesley J Neely – Microbial Ecology

The Microbial Composition of Penaeid Shrimps’ Hepatopancreas Is Modulated by Hemocyanin – Zhihong Zheng – Journal of Immunology

Overabundance of Asaia and Serratia Bacteria Is Associated with Deltamethrin Insecticide Susceptibility in Anopheles coluzzii from Agboville, Côte d’Ivoire – Bethanie Pelloquin – Microbiology Spectrum

Genomics and phylogeny of the proposed phylum ‘Candidatus Poribacteria’ associated with the excavating sponge Thoosa mismalolli – Adrián González-Castillo – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Plant Microbiome

Microbial Diversity in Cultivated and Feral Vanilla Vanilla planifolia Orchids Affected by Stem and Rot Disease – Ireri A Carbajal-Valenzuela – Microbial Ecology

Indirect reduction of Ralstonia solanacearum via pathogen helper inhibition – Mei Li – The ISME Journal

Comparative Analysis of the Cultured and Total Bacterial Community in the Wheat Rhizosphere Microbiome Using Culture-Dependent and Culture-Independent Approaches – Sameh H Youseif – Microbiology Spectrum

Other Microbes

Mechanistic Insight into Yeast Bloom in a Lactic Acid Bacteria Relaying-Community in the Start of Sourdough Microbiota Evolution – Mugihito Oshiro – Microbiology Spectrum