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Diversity of dsDNA Viruses in a South African Hot Spring Assessed by Metagenomics and Microscopy

Viruses, 2017
The current view of virus diversity in terrestrial hot springs is limited to a few sampling sites. To expand our current understanding of hot spring viral community diversity, this study aimed to investigate the first African hot spring (Brandvlei hot ...
Olivier Zablocki, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Bronwyn Kirby, Marla Trindade   +3 more
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Gestational diabetes and the human salivary microbiota: a longitudinal study during pregnancy and postpartum

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background An aberrant composition of the salivary microbiota has been found in individuals with type 2 diabetes, and in pregnant women salivary microbiota composition has been associated with preeclampsia and pre-term birth.
Mie K. W. Crusell, Lærke R. Brink, Trine Nielsen, Kristine H. Allin, Torben Hansen, Peter Damm, Jeannet Lauenborg, Tue H. Hansen, Oluf Pedersen   +8 more
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Longitudinal study of the scalp microbiome suggests coconut oil to enrich healthy scalp commensals

Scientific Reports, 2021
Dandruff is a recurrent chronic scalp disorder, affecting majority of the population worldwide. Recently a metagenomic study of the Indian scalp microbiome described an imperative role of bacterial commensals in providing essential vitamins and amino ...
Rituja Saxena, Parul Mittal, Cecile Clavaud, Darshan B. Dhakan, Nita Roy, Lionel Breton, Namita Misra, Vineet K. Sharma   +7 more
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Molecular Methods for Detecting Microorganisms in Beverages

Beverages
Beverages are an integral component of a person’s food package. Various types of microorganisms widely contaminate beverages. This review presents current research data aimed at identifying dominant microorganisms in beverages and molecular methods for ...
Ekaterina Nesterova, Polina Morozova, Mariya Gladkikh, Shima Kazemzadeh, Mikhail Syromyatnikov   +4 more
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Genome Sequence of Peacock Reveals the Peculiar Case of a Glittering Bird

Frontiers in Genetics, 2018
The unique ornamental features and extreme sexual traits of Peacock have always intrigued scientists and naturalists for centuries. However, the genomic basis of these phenotypes are yet unknown.
Shubham K. Jaiswal, Ankit Gupta, Rituja Saxena, Vishnu P. K. Prasoodanan, Ashok K. Sharma, Parul Mittal, Ankita Roy, Aaron B. A. Shafer, Nagarjun Vijay, Vineet K. Sharma   +9 more
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Temporal disturbance of a model stream ecosystem by high microbial diversity from treated wastewater

MicrobiologyOpen, 2023
Microbial communities in freshwater streams play an essential role in ecosystem functioning via biogeochemical cycling. Yet, the impacts of treated wastewater influx into stream ecosystems on microbial strain diversity remain mostly unexplored.
Tom L. Stach, Guido Sieber, Manan Shah, Sophie A. Simon, André Soares, Till L. V. Bornemann, Julia Plewka, Julian Künkel, Christian Becker, Folker Meyer, Jens Boenigk, Alexander J. Probst   +11 more
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plsMD: a plasmid reconstruction tool from short-read assemblies

BMC Bioinformatics
Background While whole genome sequencing has become a cornerstone of antimicrobial resistance surveillance, the reconstruction of plasmid sequences from short-read data remains a challenge due to repetitive sequences and assembly fragmentation.
Maryam Lotfi, Deena Jalal, Ahmed A. Sayed   +2 more
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Stable distinct core eukaryotic viromes in different mosquito species from Guadeloupe, using single mosquito viral metagenomics

Microbiome, 2019
Background Mosquitoes are the most important invertebrate viral vectors in humans and harbor a high diversity of understudied viruses, which has been shown in many mosquito virome studies in recent years.
Chenyan Shi, Leen Beller, Ward Deboutte, Kwe Claude Yinda, Leen Delang, Anubis Vega-Rúa, Anna-Bella Failloux, Jelle Matthijnssens   +7 more
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Genomically Informed Surveillance for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in a Health Care System

mBio, 2015
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are an urgent public health concern. Rapid identification of the resistance genes, their mobilization capacity, and strains carrying them is essential to direct hospital resources to prevent spread and ...
Nicole D. Pecora, Ning Li, Marc Allard, Cong Li, Esperanza Albano, Mary Delaney, Andrea Dubois, Andrew B. Onderdonk, Lynn Bry   +8 more
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Fecal Microbiota Characteristics in Constipation-Predominant and Mixed-Type Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Microorganisms
Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common condition that affects the lifestyle of patients. It is associated with significant changes in the composition of the gut microbiome, but the underlying microbial mechanisms remain to be fully ...
Mariya Gryaznova, Yuliya Smirnova, Inna Burakova, Polina Morozova, Svetlana Lagutina, Pavel Chizhkov, Olga Korneeva, Mikhail Syromyatnikov   +7 more
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