Our understanding of the link between the human microbiome and disease, including
obesity, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and autism, is rapidly expanding …

Background Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a catastrophic disease of preterm infants, and
microbial dysbiosis has been implicated in its pathogenesis. Studies evaluating the …

The body-wide human microbiome plays a role in health, but its full diversity remains
uncharacterized, particularly outside of the gut and in international populations. We …

The number of microbial genomes sequenced each year is expanding rapidly, in part due to
genome-resolved metagenomic studies that routinely recover hundreds of draft-quality …

Advances in high-throughput sequencing and 'omics technologies are revolutionizing
studies of naturally occurring microbial communities. Comprehensive investigations of …

Among the human health conditions linked to microbial communities, phenotypes are often
associated with only a subset of strains within causal microbial groups. Although it has been …

Bacteriophages typically have small genomes and depend on their bacterial hosts for
replication. Here we sequenced DNA from diverse ecosystems and found hundreds of …

While often obvious for macroscopic organisms, determining whether a microbe is dead or
alive is fraught with complications. Fields such as microbial ecology, environmental health …

Dietary intervention with extensively hydrolyzed casein formula supplemented with
Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (EHCF+ LGG) accelerates tolerance acquisition in infants with …

Background Gut bacteria might predispose to or protect from necrotising enterocolitis, a
severe illness linked to prematurity. In this observational prospective study we aimed to …