The pursuit of timely, cost-effective, accurate, and noninvasive diagnostic methodologies is
an endeavor of urgency among clinicians and scientists alike. Detecting pathologies at their …

The human body is colonized with a diverse resident microflora that includes viruses.
Recent studies of metagenomes have begun to characterize the composition of the …

Metagenomic studies show that diverse resident viruses inhabit the healthy gut; however,
little is known about the role of these viruses in the maintenance of gut homeostasis. We …

Clinical manifestations of pancreatic cancer often do not occur until the cancer has
undergone metastasis, resulting in a very low survival rate. In this study, we investigated …

Human saliva is clinically informative of both oral and general health. Since next generation
shotgun sequencing (NGS) is now widely used to identify and quantify bacteria, we …

DNA samples derived from vertebrate skin, bodily cavities and body fluids contain both host
and microbial DNA; the latter often present as a minor component. Consequently, DNA …

Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has now been applied for a decade to characterize the
microbiota composition of infected dental root canals associated with apical periodontitis …

Background Many factors can contribute to the exact makeup of the salivary microbiome.
Differences in the oral microbiome occur with old age, which may be due to oral conditions …

The human virome is composed by the set of all viruses, eukaryotic and prokaryotic, present
in the human body; as each body compartment constitutes a different microenvironment, the …

Saliva is a fluid that can be collected easily and noninvasively. Its functions in the oral cavity
are well known. Advances in molecular biology and technology, as well as research …