Dietary fibre has long been established as a nutritionally important, health-promoting food
ingredient. Modern dietary practices have seen a significant reduction in fibre consumption …

Stress, a ubiquitous part of daily human life, has varied biological effects which are
increasingly recognized as including modulation of commensal microorganisms residing in …

Background Antibiotic resistance poses human health risks, and there are concerns about
the effect of environmental antibiotic residues in the selection and spread of antibiotic …

Sepsis has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global health
priority. There has been a tremendous effort to decipher underlying mechanisms …

It is well established that the gut microbiota plays an important role in host health and is
perturbed by several factors including antibiotics. Antibiotic‐induced changes in microbial …

Background Use of antibiotics in early life has been linked with childhood inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD), but data for adults are mixed, and based on smaller investigations that …

Morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are exceedingly high worldwide.
Researchers have found that the occurrence and development of CVDs are closely related …

Human oral microbiota is the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and
pathogenic microorganisms found in the oral cavity. Oral microbiota generally exists in the …

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are primarily anthropogenic compounds found
in water at trace concentrations and mostly still ignored. Pharmaceuticals and personal care …

Bystander selection—the selective pressure for resistance exerted by antibiotics on
microbes that are not the target pathogen of treatment—is critical to understanding the total …