Phages and their potential to modulate the microbiome and immunity

S Federici, SP Nobs, E Elinav - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Bacteriophages (hence termed phages) are viruses that target bacteria and have long been
considered as potential future treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection …

The microbiome: an integral player in immune homeostasis and inflammation in the respiratory tract

O Perdijk, R Azzoni, BJ Marsland - Physiological Reviews, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The last decade of microbiome research has highlighted its fundamental role in systemic
immune and metabolic homeostasis. The microbiome plays a prominent role during …

[HTML][HTML] Trained immunity induction by the inactivated mucosal vaccine MV130 protects against experimental viral respiratory infections

P Brandi, L Conejero, FJ Cueto, S Martínez-Cano… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
MV130 is an inactivated polybacterial mucosal vaccine that confers protection to patients
against recurrent respiratory infections, including those of viral etiology. However, its …

Ecology of the respiratory tract microbiome

AE Pérez-Cobas, J Rodríguez-Beltrán, F Baquero… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
A thriving multi-kingdom microbial ecosystem inhabits the respiratory tract: the respiratory
tract microbiome (RTM). In recent years, the contribution of the RTM to human health has …

Progressive deterioration of the upper respiratory tract and the gut microbiomes in children during the early infection stages of COVID-19

R Xu, P Liu, T Zhang, Q Wu, M Zeng, Y Ma, X Jin… - Journal of Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Children are less susceptible to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and they have
manifested lower morbidity and mortality after infection, for which a multitude of mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Metatranscriptomics to characterize respiratory virome, microbiome, and host response directly from clinical samples

SV Rajagopala, NG Bakhoum, SB Pakala, MH Shilts… - Cell reports …, 2021 - cell.com
We developed a metatranscriptomics method that can simultaneously capture the
respiratory virome, microbiome, and host response directly from low biomass samples …

Respiratory eukaryotic virome expansion and bacteriophage deficiency characterize childhood asthma

S Megremis, B Constantinides, P Xepapadaki… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Asthma development and exacerbation is linked to respiratory virus infections. There is
limited information regarding the presence of viruses during non-exacerbation/infection …

CRISPR/Cas9-based point-of-care lateral flow biosensor with improved performance for rapid and robust detection of Mycoplasma pneumonia

R Zhu, H Jiang, C Li, Y Li, M Peng, J Wang, Q Wu… - Analytica Chimica …, 2023 - Elsevier
Screening of acute respiratory infections causes serious challenges in urgent point-of-care
scenarios where conventional methods are impractical and alternative techniques suffer …

[HTML][HTML] The application of multi-omics in the respiratory microbiome: Progresses, challenges and promises

J Gao, X Yi, Z Wang - Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
The study of the respiratory microbiome has entered a multi-omic era. Through integrating
different omic data types such as metagenome, metatranscriptome, metaproteome …

Virome of a feline outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting includes bocaviruses and a novel chapparvovirus

Y Li, E Gordon, A Idle, E Altan, MA Seguin, M Estrada… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
An unexplained outbreak of feline diarrhea and vomiting, negative for common enteric viral
and bacterial pathogens, was subjected to viral metagenomics and PCR. We characterized …