Gut Microbiome & Health

Lactic acid produced by optimal vaginal Lactobacillus spp. potently and specifically inactivates HIV-1 in vitro by targeting the viral RNA genome and reverse transcriptase
– Muriel Aldunate – PLOS Pathogens

Differential composition of the pulmonary microbiome in HIV-positive versus HIV-negative patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii
– Chang-Run Zhang – PLOS ONE

Risk of atopic dermatitis in periodontitis patients with and without dental scaling: A retrospective cohort study
– Ming-Che Chiang – PLOS ONE

Fecal carriage and associated factors of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in children under five years old with diarrhea at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
– Emily M. Jackson – PLOS ONE

Pathogens, Immunity & Host Interactions

Dietary tannic acid promotes intestinal clearance of Candida albicans by cross-linking hyphal chitosan
– Jia Feng – PLOS Pathogens

Trends in Clostridioides difficile infection prevalence among pediatric cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
– Muluneh Assefa – PLOS ONE

Multiplex serology for Streptobacillus moniliformis and other ‘rat bite fever-like’ microorganisms for seroprevalence studies in rodents
– Katja Schmidt – PLOS ONE

Animal & Environmental Microbiomes

Effects of rumen-protected or unprotected Clostridium butyricum on growth performance, rumen fermentation, immunity and antioxidation in fattening goats
– Caixia Zhang – PLOS ONE

The intracellular symbiont Wolbachia alters Drosophila development and metabolism to buffer against nutritional stress
– Amelia R. I. Lindsey – PLOS Genetics

Interactive effects of developmental and adult nutrition on lifespan and fecundity in a genetically diverse Drosophila population
– Andrew Jones – PLOS ONE

Metabolism, Health & Disease

Alterations in the serum metabolome in patients with the COVID-19 Omicron variant and in recovered cases
– Feng Gao – PLOS ONE

Humanized monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 mice on a high-fat diet exhibit impaired liver detoxification during metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
– J. Jose Corbalan – PLOS ONE

Current and future burden of gynecological cancers attributable to high body-mass index: A comprehensive global analysis and projection study
– Xuanyu Zhao – PLOS ONE

Developing and experimentally validating a glucocorticoid signaling-related gene signature to evaluate the prognosis and immunotherapeutic response in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma
– Yu Zhang – PLOS ONE

Computational & Bioinformatics Advances

ArcDFI: Attention regularization guided by CYP450 interactions for predicting drug–food interactions
– Mogan Gim – PLOS Computational Biology

Advanced deep learning-based brain tumor classification using a novel customized CNN and optimized residual network
– Mehwish Rasheed – PLOS ONE