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Effect of chewing betel nut on the gut microbiota of Hainanese.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Betel nut chewing (BNC) is prevalent in South Asia and Southeast Asia. BNC can affect host health by modulating the gut microbiota. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of BNC on the gut microbiota of the host. Feces samples were obtained from
Li Ying, Yunjia Yang, Jun Zhou, Hairong Huang, Guankui Du   +4 more
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Kingella kingae Intrauterine Infection: An Unusual Cause of Chorioamnionitis and Miscarriage in a Patient with Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease

Diagnostics, 2021
Kingella kingae is a Gram-negative coccobacillus belonging to the Neisseriaceae family. In children less than 4 years old, K. kingae invasive infection can induce septic arthritis and osteomyelitis, and more rarely endocarditis, meningitis, ocular ...
Maria Paola Bonasoni, Andrea Palicelli, Giulia Dalla Dea, Giuseppina Comitini, Giulia Pazzola, Giuseppe Russello, Graziella Bertoldi, Marcellino Bardaro, Claudia Zuelli, Edoardo Carretto   +9 more
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Association Between Gonococcal Infection and a Common Genetic Deletion in Sperm Mitochondrial

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2023
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a member of the Neisseriaceae family. They are non-spore-forming, gram-negative, encapsulated, non-motile, non-acidic, and bean-shaped bacteria.
Mohanad Jawad Kadhim, Shaimaa Obaid Hasson, Hayder Shkhair Al-Janabi   +2 more
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Influence of Host Blood Meal Source on Gut Microbiota of Wild Caught Aedes aegypti, a Dominant Arboviral Disease Vector

Microorganisms, 2022
Blood feeding is an important behavior of Aedes aegypti, a dominant arboviral disease vector, as it can establish and transmit viruses to humans. Bacteria associated with the mosquito gut can modulate the biological characteristics and behavior of ...
Devojit Kumar Sarma, Manoj Kumar, Jigyasa Dhurve, Namrata Pal, Poonam Sharma, Meenu Mariya James, Deepanker Das, Sweta Mishra, Swasti Shubham, Manoj Kumawat, Vinod Verma, Rajnarayan R. Tiwari, Ravinder Nagpal, Francesco Marotta   +13 more
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Dynamics of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Gut Microbiota Throughout the Overwintering Period in Canada

Microorganisms, 2020
Microbial symbionts inhabiting the honeybee gut (i.e., gut microbiota) are essential for food digestion, immunity, and gut protection of their host. The taxonomic composition of the gut microbiota is dynamic throughout the honeybee life cycle and the ...
Naomie Bleau, Sidki Bouslama, Pierre Giovenazzo, Nicolas Derome   +3 more
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Putative Familial Transmissible Bacteria of Various Body Niches Link with Home Environment and Children’s Immune Health

Microbiology Spectrum, 2021
Owing to their significant impact on children’s long-term health, familial factors in the microbiomes of children have attracted increasing attention. However, the mechanism underlying microbiome transmission across generations remains unclear.
Lu Zhao, Wanning Chen, Yongsheng Ge, Xin Lv, Ying Wang, Han Yu, Yi Liu, Dingfeng Wu, Na Jiao, Yuanqi Wu, Daqing Lv, Guoqing Zhang, Fuzhong Xue, Xiaohong Xu, Zhongtao Gai, Ruixin Zhu, Lei Zhang, Guoping Zhao   +17 more
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16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing Demonstrates that Indoor-Reared Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Harbor a Core Subset of Bacteria Normally Associated with the Wild Host.

PLoS ONE, 2015
A MiSeq multiplexed 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of the gut microbiota of wild and indoor-reared Bombus terrestris (bumblebees) confirmed the presence of a core set of bacteria, which consisted of Neisseriaceae (Snodgrassella), Orbaceae (Gilliamella ...
Ivan Meeus, Laurian Parmentier, Annelies Billiet, Kevin Maebe, Filip Van Nieuwerburgh, Dieter Deforce, Felix Wäckers, Peter Vandamme, Guy Smagghe   +8 more
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Alterations of Oral Microbiota in Chinese Patients With Esophageal Cancer

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020
Emerging evidence supports that oral microbiota are associated with health and diseases of the esophagus. How oral microbiota change in Chinese patients with esophageal cancer (EC) is unknown, neither is their biomarker role.
Qiaofei Zhao, Tian Yang, Yifan Yan, Yu Zhang, Zhibin Li, Youchun Wang, Jing Yang, Yanli Xia, Hongli Xiao, Hongfeng Han, Chunfen Zhang, Weihong Xue, Hongyi Zhao, Hongwei Chen, Baoyong Wang   +14 more
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Genome-wide analysis of DNA uptake across the outer membrane of naturally competent Haemophilus influenzae

iScience, 2021
Summary: The genomes of naturally competent Pasteurellaceae and Neisseriaceae have many short uptake sequences (USS), which allow them to distinguish self-DNA from foreign DNA.
Marcelo Mora, Joshua Chang Mell, Garth D. Ehrlich, Rachel L. Ehrlich, Rosemary J. Redfield   +4 more
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Fructose catabolism and its metabolic effects: Exploring host–microbiota interactions and the impact of ethnicity

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend This graphical abstract is a schematic representation highlighting the interactions between dietary fructose, gut microbiota and ethnicity in shaping metabolic health. Abstract Important health disparities are observed in the prevalence of obesity and associated non‐communicable diseases (NCDs), including type 2 diabetes (T2D ...
Florine H.M. Westerbeke, Melany Rios‐Morales, Ilias Attaye, Max Nieuwdorp   +3 more
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