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The rise of antibiotic resistance is a growing challenge, affecting humans, the environment, and animals. Under the One Health framework, this study investigated resistance mechanisms to critically important antibiotics in frozen chicken nuggets imported from …
Read PDFClimate change poses significant threats to global agricultural productivity, necessitating innovative strategies to ensure food security and ecological sustainability. One promising avenue lies in the deliberate design and deployment of synthetic microbiomes and engineered rhizospheres …
Read PDFRice-fish coculture represents a classic sustainable agricultural paradigm; however, the microecological mechanisms underlying its capacity to maintain soil fertility and microbial community stability remain poorly understood. We conducted a 13-month field experiment comparing three cultivation …
Read PDFMedication usage is a known contributor to the inter-individual variability of the gut microbiome. However, medications are often used repeatedly and for long periods, a notion yet unaccounted for in microbiome studies. Recently, we and …
Read PDFMolecular profiling enabled by meta-omics technologies has significantly expanded our knowledge of microbial catalog across diverse environments. Increasing attention has now been focused on identifying ecologically significant taxa, particularly keystone that stabilize communities, rare taxa …
Read PDF<h4>Motivation</h4>Taxonomic analysis of environmental microbial communities is now routinely performed thanks to advances in DNA sequencing. Determining the role of these communities in global biogeochemical cycles requires the identification of their metabolic functions, such as …
Read PDF<h4>Introduction</h4>The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into bacteriology has marked a pivotal advancement by enabling the analysis of large-scale microbiological datasets. Despite growing adoption, significant research gaps persist, hindering the full exploitation of AI's potential …
Read PDFInflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic, relapsing inflammatory disorders with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohns disease (CD) representing the two major phenotypes. While these conditions share common features, they exhibit distinct clinical presentations, disease behaviors, …
Read PDFMicrobial communities in the critical zone drive key geochemical processes, but many subsurface habitats remain poorly characterized. Ghost-rock karst systems in particular represent unexplored microbial niches. Here, we provide the first genome-resolved metagenomic comparison of …
Read PDFTryptophan metabolism plays a key role in host-microbiota interactions, producing a wide array of bioactive metabolites. However, our understanding of the interactions between tryptophan metabolites and the gut microbiota is still limited. Using targeted quantitative …
Read PDFSince ancient times, the community of Xochimilco in the south of Mexico City has provided vegetables for the entire city. Today, Lake Xochimilco is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it is the …
Read PDFBACKGROUND: Post-weaning diarrhoea (PWD) is a major health and economic concern in intensive pig production. In this study, we hypothesized that the faecal microbiome, sampled before disease onset, could provide early prognostic markers of PWD …
Read PDFAntibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are emerging as critical environmental contaminants across diverse ecological interfaces. To dissect evidence of microbiome and resistome in the different interconnected interfaces of ecotone, we conducted a field investigation of the …
Read PDFThe ocular surface microbiome plays a critical role in maintaining ocular health, preventing infections, and regulating immune responses. Contact lens (CL) wear has been linked to alterations in microbial composition, potentially leading to dysbiosis and …
Read PDFThe prevalence and proliferation of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is considered one of the critical issues of our time. Wastewater is a habitat for complex microbial communities where bacteria share antimicrobial-resistance genes through horizontal gene transfer. Hospital …
Read PDFPingliang Red cattle is renowned for its tender meat and symmetrical intramuscular fat (IMF) deposition. Rumen microbiota are crucial for energy metabolism and nutrient acquisition in cattle, significantly influencing IMF deposition. Therefore, this study aimed …
Read PDFThe widespread use of antibiotics in livestock farming has led to the persistent issue of antibiotic residues in meat products, raising significant concerns for food safety and public health. These residues can contribute to the …
Read PDFBACKGROUND: In-feed muramidase enzyme has been linked to numerous advantages in several animal species. In the past years, muramidase has been shown to be effective in hydrolyzing peptidoglycan fragments, especially at small-intestine level in broilers, …
Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>Current surveillance of diarrhoeal disease is hindered by limitations of traditional diagnostic approaches, which often fail to identify the causative organism, particularly for novel or hard-to-culture bacterial pathogens. Sequencing nucleic acids directly from stool can …
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