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An optimised protocol for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in stool

BMC Microbiology, 2021
Background SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in stool samples of COVID-19 patients, with potential implications for faecal-oral transmission. Compared to nasopharyngeal swab samples, the complexity of the stool matrix poses a challenge in the detection of the
Tianqi Li, Enriqueta Garcia-Gutierrez, Daniel A. Yara, Jacob Scadden, Jade Davies, Chloe Hutchins, Alp Aydin, Justin O’Grady, Arjan Narbad, Stefano Romano, Lizbeth Sayavedra   +10 more
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The Pregnancy and EARly Life study (PEARL) - a longitudinal study to understand how gut microbes contribute to maintaining health during pregnancy and early life

BMC Pediatrics, 2021
Background The early life period represents the first step in establishing a beneficial microbial ecosystem, which in turn affects both short and longer-term health.
Sarah Phillips, Rachel Watt, Thomas Atkinson, George M Savva, Antonietta Hayhoe, Lindsay J Hall, on behalf of the PEARL study team   +6 more
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LotuS2: an ultrafast and highly accurate tool for amplicon sequencing analysis

Microbiome, 2022
Background Amplicon sequencing is an established and cost-efficient method for profiling microbiomes. However, many available tools to process this data require both bioinformatics skills and high computational power to process big datasets. Furthermore,
Ezgi Özkurt, Joachim Fritscher, Nicola Soranzo, Duncan Y. K. Ng, Robert P. Davey, Mohammad Bahram, Falk Hildebrand   +6 more
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Fecal microbiota transfer between young and aged mice reverses hallmarks of the aging gut, eye, and brain

Microbiome, 2022
Background Altered intestinal microbiota composition in later life is associated with inflammaging, declining tissue function, and increased susceptibility to age-associated chronic diseases, including neurodegenerative dementias.
Aimée Parker, Stefano Romano, Rebecca Ansorge, Asmaa Aboelnour, Gwenaelle Le Gall, George M. Savva, Matthew G. Pontifex, Andrea Telatin, David Baker, Emily Jones, David Vauzour, Steven Rudder, L. Ashley Blackshaw, Glen Jeffery, Simon R. Carding   +14 more
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Absence of Bacteria Permits Fungal Gut-To-Brain Translocation and Invasion in Germfree Mice but Ageing Alone Does Not Drive Pathobiont Expansion in Conventionally Raised Mice

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022
Age-associated changes in the structure of the intestinal microbiome and in its interaction with the brain via the gut-brain axis are increasingly being implicated in neurological and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aimée Parker, Steve A. James, Catherine Purse, Arlaine Brion, Andrew Goldson, Andrea Telatin, David Baker, Simon R. Carding   +7 more
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Extracellular vesicles produced by the human gut commensal bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron elicit anti-inflammatory responses from innate immune cells

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Bacterial extracellular vesicles (BEVs) produced by gut commensal bacteria have been proposed to play an important role in maintaining host homeostasis via interactions with the immune system.
Sonia Fonseca, Ana L. Carvalho, Ana L. Carvalho, Ariadna Miquel-Clopés, Emily J. Jones, Rokas Juodeikis, Régis Stentz, Simon R. Carding, Simon R. Carding   +8 more
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Global genomic pathogen surveillance to inform vaccine strategies: a decade-long expedition in pneumococcal genomics

Genome Medicine, 2021
Vaccines are powerful agents in infectious disease prevention but often designed to protect against some strains that are most likely to spread and cause diseases.
Stephen D. Bentley, Stephanie W. Lo
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Biofilms for babies: introducing microbes and biofilms to preschool-aged children [PDF]

, 2017
Microbes are beneficial to life on our planet as they facilitate natural processes such as global nutrient cycling in our environment. This article details a 30-minute activity to introduce pre-school children ranging from 3 to 5 years of age to microbes
Couto, Jillian M.
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Panakeia - a universal tool for bacterial pangenome analysis

BMC Genomics, 2022
Background Development of new pan-genome analysis tools is important, as the pangenome of a microbial species has become an important method to define the diversity of a selected taxon, most commonly a species, in the last years.
Sina Beier, Nicholas R Thomson
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Walls talk: Microbial biogeography of homes spanning urbanization. [PDF]

, 2016
Westernization has propelled changes in urbanization and architecture, altering our exposure to the outdoor environment from that experienced during most of human evolution.
Blaser, Martin J, Branch, Oralee H, Cavallin, Humberto, Dominguez-Bello, Maria G, Hernandez, Jean N, Knight, Rob, Novoselac, Atila, Paulino, Luciana C, Pereira, Henrique, Pericchi, Luis R, Rios, Rafael, Ruiz-Calderon, Jean F, Song, Se Jin   +12 more
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