Traditional pathogen detection methods in public health infectious disease surveillance rely
upon the identification of agents that are already known to be associated with a particular …

The primate body hosts trillions of microbes. Interactions between primate hosts and these
microbes profoundly affect primate physiology, reproduction, health, survival, and ultimately …

Though agriculture is often viewed as one of humanity's crowning achievements, skeletal
evidence indicates that dependence on domesticated plants and animals was accompanied …

The study of coprolites from earlier cultures represents a great opportunity to study an
“unaltered” composition of the intestinal microbiota. To test this, pre-Columbian coprolites …

Large‐scale characterization of the human microbiota has largely focused on Western
adults, yet these populations may be uncharacteristic because of their diets and lifestyles. In …

This paper reports an approach to the identification of prehistoric parasitic infection, which
integrates traditional morphological methods with molecular methods. The approach …

Skin harbours large communities of colonizing bacteria. The same bacterial species can
exist in different physiological states: viable, dormant, non‐viable. Each physiological state …

People in westernized, urban environments host different gut microbes than people in
remote, undeveloped parts of the world. Children in remote regions of Burkina Faso, for …