Obesity is a major global public health problem requiring multifaceted interventional
approaches including dietary interventions with probiotic bacteria. High-throughput genome …

BACKGROUND: Some Lactobacillus species are associated with obesity and weight gain
while others are associated with weight loss. Lactobacillus spp. and bifidobacteria represent …

With the expanding availability of sequencing technologies, research previously centered on
the human genome can now afford to include the study of humans' internal ecosystem …

Eighty‐one stool samples from Taiwanese were collected for analysis of the association
between the gut flora and obesity. The supervised analysis showed that the most, abundant …

Background: It has been suggested that the dysfunction of the gut microbiome can have
deleterious effects on the regulation of body weight and adiposity by affecting energy …

We report the draft genome sequence of Lactobacillus ingluviei strain Autruche 4
(CSURP209) isolated from an ostrich. L. ingluviei is associated with weight gain in mice …

Purpose Visceral fat is an independent risk factor for metabolic and cardiovascular disease.
The study aimed to investigate the associations between gut microbiome and visceral fat …

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Background Metabolic inflammation mediated obesity requires bacterial molecules to trigger
immune and adipose cells leading to inflammation and adipose depot development. In …

Large-scale microbiome studies have established that most of the diversity contained in the
gastrointestinal tract is represented at the strain level; however, exhaustive genomic and …