Humans serve as definitive hosts ofD. renalefollowing the consumption of undercooked paratenic hosts, such as fish or frogs [52]. Eggs of the parasite are excreted in urine, hatch into first-stage larvae (L1) in water, and are then ingested by oligochaete worms (intermediate hosts). These ...
Previously, we published an analysis of 149 genomes of 78 different species isolated from the female bladder [14]. Several of the taxa found within the bladder microbiota are also inhabitants of the vaginal microbiota [14,21,22]. This led us to posit that the bacterial communities of these t...
Soil bacterial diversity and community composition did not fully conform with the ACBR classification. Although 19% of the variability was explained by this classification, the largest differences in bacterial community composition were between the broader continental and maritime Antarctic regions, where a...
The pulsed introduction of dead plant and animal material into soils represents one of the primary mechanisms for returning organic carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) compounds to biogeochemical cycles. Decomposition of animal carcasses provides a high C and N
transmission across humans and animals [4,5], temporal dynamism [6,7,8], spatial organization [9], and site specificity [10,11,12], where they influence the host health [13] and the ecology of the gastrointestinal tract [14]. Altogether, the oral cavity offers a powerful environment to ...
However, there are two major challenges with this method: (i) the lack of complete reference databases that can provide a comprehensive taxonomic classification for many uncharacterized environmental microbes, and (ii) that widely used general primer sets do not adequately cover some important lineages...
c Distribution and characteristics of the viruses as a function of the taxonomic classification of their hosts, including the genome size, annotation rate, host specificity, and lifestyles. The lifestyles were predicted using DeePhage [76] and classified into two groups (virulent: score ≥ 50...
The effect of microbes on their human host is often mediated through changes in metabolite concentrations. As such, multiple tools have been proposed to predict metabolite concentrations from microbial taxa frequencies. Such tools typically fail to captu
It is now apparent that the complex microbial communities found on and in the human body vary across individuals. What has largely been missing from previous studies is an understanding of how these communities vary over time within individuals. To the e
The surge in bioaerosols carried by dust events increases the allergen burden, the incidence of asthma, and the spread of diseases such as Kawasaki disease [15, 16]. Inhalation and cutaneous exposure are the main ways that humans are exposed to bioaerosols. They may have negative health ...