Functional effects of the microbiota in chronic respiratory disease

KF Budden, SD Shukla, SF Rehman… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2019 - thelancet.com
The composition of the lung microbiome is increasingly well characterised, with changes in
microbial diversity or abundance observed in association with several chronic respiratory …

Risk factors and predisposing conditions for urinary tract infection

O Storme, J Tirán Saucedo… - … advances in urology, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding individual and population-specific risk factors associated with recurrent
urinary tract infections (UTIs) can help physicians tailor prophylactic strategies. Frequent …

Intestinal microbiota in early life and its implications on childhood health

L Zhuang, H Chen, S Zhang, J Zhuang… - Genomics …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Trillions of microbes reside in the human body and participate in multiple physiological and
pathophysiological processes that affect host health throughout the life cycle. The …

Thinking bigger: How early‐life environmental exposures shape the gut microbiome and influence the development of asthma and allergic disease

H Sbihi, RCT Boutin, C Cutler, M Suen, BB Finlay… - Allergy, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Imbalance, or dysbiosis, of the gut microbiome of infants has been linked to an increased
risk of asthma and allergic diseases. Most studies to date have provided a wealth of data …

The role of antimicrobial treatment during pregnancy on the neonatal gut microbiome and the development of atopy, asthma, allergy and obesity in childhood

S Milliken, RM Allen, RF Lamont - Expert opinion on drug safety, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: The use of antibiotics prenatally, during pregnancy, or neonatally may have
adverse effects on the neonatal gut microbiome, and adversely affect the development of the …

[HTML][HTML] Lung microbiome in asthma: current perspectives

K Loverdos, G Bellos, L Kokolatou, I Vasileiadis… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
A growing body of evidence implicates the human microbiome as a potentially influential
player actively engaged in shaping the pathogenetic processes underlying the endotypes …

The matter of the reproductive microbiome

S Schoenmakers, R Steegers-Theunissen… - Obstetric …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The preconceptional presence of microbiota in the female and male reproductive organs
suggests that fertilization is taking place in a nonsterile environment and contributes to …

Intestinal microbiome as a novel therapeutic target for local and systemic inflammation

K Uchiyama, Y Naito, T Takagi - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently, the pathogenesis of systemic inflammatory disease such as inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD), multiple sclerosis (MS), systemic inflammatory arthritis, asthma, and non …

Operative vaginal delivery and post-partum infection

O Mohamed-Ahmed, K Hinshaw, M Knight - Best Practice & Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
During the past decade, there has been an increase in the awareness of infections
associated with pregnancy and delivery. The most significant cause of post-partum infection …

Are there potential applications of fecal microbiota transplantation beyond intestinal disorders?

Y Zhou, H Xu, H Huang, Y Li, H Chen… - BioMed Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Intestinal microbial dysbiosis is associated with various intestinal and extraintestinal
disorders. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), a type of fecal bacteriotherapy, is …