Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are a group of chronic gastrointestinal inflammatory
diseases with unknown etiology. There is a combination of well documented factors in their …

Recent advances in sequencing techniques, applied to the study of microbial communities,
have provided compelling evidence that the mammalian intestinal tract harbors a complex …

Background The intestinal microbiota is implicated in the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis.
Faecal microbiota transplantation is a novel form of therapeutic microbial manipulation, but …

Fish microbiome plays an important role in maintaining host homeostasis, with many
bacterial functions directly linked to host fitness. Fish microbiome research is advancing fast …

Sutterella species have been frequently associated with human diseases, such as autism,
Down syndrome, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but the impact of these bacteria on …

Previous studies of antibiotic resistance dissemination by travel have, by targeting only a
select number of cultivable bacterial species, omitted most of the human microbiome. Here …

Background Our understanding of the gut microbiota of animals is largely based on studies
of mammals. To better understand the evolutionary basis of symbiotic relationships between …

Intestinal dysbiosis in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients depend on disease activity.
We aimed to characterize the microbiota after 7 years of follow-up in an unselected cohort of …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a lifelong chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal
tract. Polysaccharides from mushrooms have been extensively used to treat inflammatory …

Tremella fuciformis is an edible medicinal mushroom, and its polysaccharide components
are found to confer various health benefits. This study identified the protective effects of …