The digestive tract of medicinal leeches from commercial suppliers has been investigated
previously and comprises of a relatively simple bacterial community. However, the …

The medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, is one of the simplest naturally occurring models for
digestive-tract symbioses, where only two bacterial species, Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria (γ …

Culture-based studies of the microbial community within the gut of the medicinal leech have
typically been focused on various Aeromonas species, which were believed to be the sole …

Leeches are found in terrestrial, aquatic, and marine habitats on all continents.
Sanguivorous leeches have been used in medicine for millennia. Modern scientific uses …

Most animals harbour symbiotic microorganisms inside their body, where intimate
interactions occur between the partners. The medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, possesses …

The gut bacteria of the North American medicinal leech, Macrobdella decora, were
characterized. Biochemical tests and DNA sequences indicated that Aeromonas jandaei is …

ABSTRACT The European medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, harbors simple microbial
communities in the digestive tract and bladder. The colonization history, infection frequency …

Abstract Aims Medicinal leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) are fresh water ectoparasitic species
which have been applied as traditional therapy. However, gut microbiota could bring high …

Many monophagous animals have coevolutionary relationships with bacteria that provide
unavailable nutrients to the host. Frequently, these microbial partners are vertically inherited …

There are trillions of microbes found throughout the human body and they exceed the
number of eukaryotic cells by 10-fold. Metagenomic studies have revealed that the majority …