A key finding was that the benefits were directly due to healthful changes in
the gut bacterial community.
Comparative Analysis of
the Gut Bacterial Community of Four Anastrepha Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Based on Pyrosequencing — Carmen Ventura — Current Microbiology
In many studies of human subjects the question of interest centers on whether a biological factor (disease state, treatment, host genotype etc.) results in a measurable difference on
a gut bacterial community against the background of the naturally occurring differences among humans.
* Host Age Affects the Development of Southern Catfish
Gut Bacterial Community Divergent From That in the Food and Rearing Water — Zhimin Zhang — Frontiers in Microbiology
Ultimately, the team wanted to build a model that could use a mouse's starting
gut bacterial community to predict that mouse's risk of infection.
«Healthy
gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.
Data Descriptor:
Gut bacterial communities of diarrheic patients with indications of Clostridioides difficile infection — Dominik Schneider — Scientific Data
We investigated the distal
gut bacterial communities of three healthy humans before and after treatment with ciprofloxacin, obtaining more than 7,000 full - length rRNA sequences and over 900,000 pyrosequencing reads from two hypervariable regions of the rRNA gene.
Not exact matches
Mode of delivery affects the
bacterial community in the newborn
gut.
Association between breast milk
bacterial communities and establishment and development of the infant
gut microbiome.
Its discovery supports the idea that viruses help regulate the teeming
bacterial communities that call our
gut home.
Jesus Luevano, a medical student at Harvard Medical School and a researcher the Ragon Institute examined
bacterial communities from the
gut of 145 people in Boston and 120 subjects in Uganda.
The review centers on a first of its kind study in which researchers characterized the
gut bacterial microbiota (bacteriome) and fungal
community (mycobiome) in a number of families that had members with CD and healthy relatives.
Its discovery supports the idea that viruses may be the puppet masters of our intestines, regulating the teeming
bacterial communities that call our
gut home.
In addition, cohousing coprophagic mice harboring transplanted microbiota from discordant pairs provides an opportunity to determine which
bacterial taxa invade the
gut communities of cage mates, how invasion correlates with host phenotypes, and how invasion and microbial niche are affected by human diets.
Disturbances of the placenta's
bacterial community may explain why some women give birth prematurely, and could also be one of the ways that a woman's diet affects her offspring's
gut bacteria, and as a result the child's disease risk.
Rectal swabs contained all of the diversity present in fecal samples, along with additional taxa, suggesting that fecal
bacterial communities may only represent a subsample of the complex
bacterial communities inhabiting the
gut.
Researchers have shown that the
bacterial communities in termite
guts came about through both inheritance and transfer between colonies.
The researchers sequenced all of the DNA in the
bacterial communities living in the preterm babies»
guts.
Just like we realize now that our
gut isn't just human cells but actually contains more
bacterial cells than our own cells, we have to realize that our health depends on what's outside our own bodies — like our environment and the
community of people we surround ourselves with.
While the jury's out on whether these supplements have any effect on the
gut's
bacterial environment, it is clear that not having a thriving microbial
community in one's intestines can be dangerous, with consequences ranging from a day or two of diarrhea to life - threatening infection with a nasty bug called Clostridium difficile, which can gain a foothold in patients treated with antibiotics.
«In a series of experiments conducted with mice prone to intestinal inflammation, the researchers found that inflammation itself causes significant simplification in diverse
communities of
gut microbes and allows new
bacterial populations to establish major footholds.
The problem has been largely attributed to the overuse of antibiotics, which damage the
bacterial community in the
gut called the microbiome.
Evidence showed the fiber could re-balance the
bacterial community in the
gut that help in food digestion and play an important role in overall health.
However, a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology indicates that many of the pesticides commonly used to protect bees may actually damage
bacterial communities in their
guts, which can have severe effects on bee health.