Microbial diversity in individuals and their household contacts following typical antibiotic courses. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundAntibiotics are a mainstay of treatment for bacterial infections worldwide, yet the effects of typical antibiotic prescriptions on human indigenous microbiota have not been thoroughly evaluated.
Abeles, Shira R +7 more
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Gut microbiota in HIV-pneumonia patients is related to peripheral CD4 counts, lung microbiota, and in vitro macrophage dysfunction. [PDF]
, 2019 Pneumonia is common and frequently fatal in HIV-infected patients, due to rampant, systemic inflammation and failure to control microbial infection. While airway microbiota composition is related to local inflammatory response, gut microbiota has been ...
Byanyima, Patrick +14 more
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Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2022 Traditional Portuguese fermented meat products represent a valued economic and cultural heritage. The objective of this work was to screen the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) present in alheira sausages.
Nathália Fernandes +6 more
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Mixed Spices at Culinary Doses Have Prebiotic Effects in Healthy Adults: A Pilot Study. [PDF]
, 2019 Spices were used as food preservatives prior to the advent of refrigeration, suggesting the possibility of effects on microbiota. Previous studies have shown prebiotic activities in animals and in vitro, but there has not been a demonstration of ...
Carpenter, Catherine L +11 more
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Deficiency of dietary fiber in Slc5a8-null mice promotes bacterial dysbiosis and alters colonic epithelial transcriptome towards proinflammatory milieu [PDF]
, 2019 Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by chronic inflammation in the intestinal tract due to disruption of the symbiotic relationship between the host immune system and microbiota.
Elmassry, Moamen +6 more
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Microbiota composition of the dorsal patch of reproductive male Leptonycteris yerbabuenae. [PDF]
, 2019 Bacteria and other types of microbes interact with their hosts in several ways, including metabolic pathways, development, and complex behavioral processes such as mate recognition.
Cerqueda-García, Daniel +5 more
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Biophysical and structural characterization of a zinc-responsive repressor of the MarR superfamily.
PLoS ONE, 2019 The uptake of zinc, which is vital in trace amounts, is tightly controlled in bacteria. For this control, bacteria of the Streptococcaceae group use a Zn(II)-binding repressor named ZitR in lactococci and AdcR in streptococci, while other bacteria use a ...
Paloma Fernández Varela +5 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Liver fibrosis is one main histological characteristic of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a disease paralleling a worldwide surge in metabolic syndromes with no approved therapies.
Dengcheng Zhou +6 more
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BMC Genomics, 2012 Background The assimilation of nitrogen in bacteria is achieved through only a few metabolic conversions between alpha-ketoglutarate, glutamate and glutamine.
Kormelink Tom +6 more
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Analysis of gut microbiota in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Disease-related dysbiosis and modifications induced by etanercept [PDF]
, 2018 A certain number of studies were carried out to address the question of how dysbiosis could affect the onset and development of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but little is known about the reciprocal influence between microbiota composition and ...
D'Amelio, R +11 more
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