Although Escherichia coli can be an innocuous resident of the gastrointestinal tract, it also
has the pathogenic capacity to cause significant diarrheal and extraintestinal diseases …

In a complex, diverse intestinal environment, commensal microbiota metabolizes excessive
dietary tryptophan to produce more bioactive metabolites connecting with kinds of diverse …

Mucins are large glycoproteins consisting of approximately 80% of hetero-oligosaccharides.
Gut mucin degraders of healthy subjects were investigated, through a culture dependent …

Cirrhotic portal hypertension is characterised by development of the decompensating events
of ascites, encephalopathy, portal hypertensive bleeding and hepatorenal syndrome, which …

Gut microbiota plays an important role in maintaining a healthy intestine. Escherichia coli (E.
coli) is a commensal bacteria colonizes the mucous membranes of the gut, intestine, and …

There are 100 trillion diverse bacterial residents in the mammalian gut. Commensal
bacterial species/strains cooperate and compete with each other to establish a well …

Mucus-associated bacterial communities are critical for determining disease pathology and
promoting colonization resistance. Yet the key ecological properties of mucus resident …

Background & Aims Gut dysbiosis and inflammation perpetuate loss of gut barrier integrity
(GBI) and pathological bacterial translocation (BT) in cirrhosis, contributing to infection risk …

Enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) are a major cause of diarrhoea worldwide. Due to their
heterogeneity and carriage in healthy individuals, identification of diagnostic virulence …

Hosts are protected from attack by potentially harmful enteric microorganisms, viruses, and
parasites by the polarized fully differentiated epithelial cells that make up the epithelium …