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A study of innate immune kinetics reveals a role for a chloride transporter in a virulent Francisella tularensis type B strain

MicrobiologyOpen, 2021
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease of global proportions. Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis (type A) and holarctica (type B) cause disease in healthy humans, with type A infections resulting in higher mortality.
Lisa M. Matz, Joseph F. Petrosino
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Benchmarking genome assembly methods on metagenomic sequencing data [PDF]

, 2023
Zhenmiao Zhang, Chao Yang, Werner Pieter Veldsman, Xiaodong Fang, Lu Zhang   +4 more
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The Gene Catalog and Comparative Analysis of Gut Microbiome of Big Cats Provide New Insights on Panthera Species

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Majority of metagenomic studies in the last decade have focused on revealing the gut microbiomes of humans, rodents, and ruminants; however, the gut microbiome and genic information (gene catalog) of large felids such as Panthera species are largely ...
Parul Mittal, Rituja Saxena, Atul Gupta, Shruti Mahajan, Vineet K. Sharma   +4 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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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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Structure and biosynthesis of carotenoids produced by a novel Planococcus sp. isolated from South Africa

Microbial Cell Factories, 2022
Background The genus Planococcus is comprised of halophilic bacteria generally reported for the production of carotenoid pigments and biosurfactants. In previous work, we showed that the culturing of the orange-pigmented Planococcus sp.
Anesu Conrad Moyo, Laurent Dufossé, Daniele Giuffrida, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Marla Trindade   +4 more
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Translational metagenomics [PDF]

Journal of Translational Medicine, 2021
Selvasankar Murugesan, Souhaila Al Khodor   +1 more
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Target Enrichment Metagenomics Reveals Human Pegivirus-1 in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Recipients [PDF]

, 2022
Natali Ludowyke, Worakorn Phumiphanjarphak, Nopporn Apiwattanakul, Suwimon Manopwisedjaroen, Samart Pakakasama, Insee Sensorn, Ekawat Pasomsub, Wasun Chantratita, Suradej Hongeng, Pakorn Aiewsakun, Arunee Thitithanyanont   +10 more
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The Emerging Role of the Gut Virome in Health and Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Challenges, Covariates and a Viral Imbalance

Viruses, 2023
Virome research is a rapidly growing area in the microbiome field that is increasingly associated with human diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Daan Jansen, Jelle Matthijnssens
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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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