Parasitic protozoa and interactions with the host intestinal microbiota

SL Burgess, CA Gilchrist, TC Lynn… - Infection and …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Parasitic protozoan infections represent a major health burden in the developing world and
contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality. These infections are often associated with …

Mechanistic insights into the interaction between the host gut microbiome and malaria

RK Mandal, NW Schmidt - PLoS Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Malaria is a devastating infectious disease and significant global health burden caused by
the bite of a Plasmodium-infected female Anopheles mosquito. Gut microbiota was recently …

Gut Bacteroides act in a microbial consortium to cause susceptibility to severe malaria

RK Mandal, A Mandal, JE Denny, R Namazii… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Malaria is caused by Plasmodium species and remains a significant cause of morbidity and
mortality globally. Gut bacteria can influence the severity of malaria, but the contribution of …

Gut microbiome composition associated with Plasmodium infection in the Eurasian tree sparrow

SD Rohrer, BQ Robertson, LM Chubiz… - Journal of Avian …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent expansion of microbiome research has uncovered connections between resident
microbial communities and blood parasite risk, establishing the potential for microbial …

Avian malaria parasites modulate gut microbiome assembly in canaries

J Aželytė, A Wu-Chuang, A Maitre, R Žiegytė… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rodent and human malaria parasites cause dysbiosis in the host gut microbiome, but
whether Plasmodium species affecting birds cause dysbiosis in their hosts is currently …

Alcohol-associated intestinal dysbiosis impairs pulmonary host defense against Klebsiella pneumoniae

DR Samuelson, JE Shellito, VJ Maffei, ED Tague… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Chronic alcohol consumption perturbs the normal intestinal microbial communities
(dysbiosis). To investigate the relationship between alcohol-mediated dysbiosis and …

Supplier-origin mouse microbiomes significantly influence locomotor and anxiety-related behavior, body morphology, and metabolism

AC Ericsson, ML Hart, J Kwan, L Lanoue… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
The mouse is the most commonly used model species in biomedical research. Just as
human physical and mental health are influenced by the commensal gut bacteria, mouse …

Malaria and the microbiome: a systematic review

MM Ippolito, JE Denny, C Langelier… - Clinical Infectious …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background The microbiome influences malaria parasite fitness and transmission efficiency
in mosquitoes and appears to affect malaria dynamics in mammalian hosts as well. Nascent …

Trait energy and fatigue may be connected to gut bacteria among young physically active adults: An exploratory study

A Boolani, KM Gallivan, KS Ondrak, CJ Christopher… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent scientific evidence suggests that traits energy and fatigue are two unique unipolar
moods with distinct mental and physical components. This exploratory study investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolomic analysis of mouse prefrontal cortex reveals upregulated analytes during wakefulness compared to sleep

AK Bourdon, GM Spano, W Marshall, M Bellesi… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
By identifying endogenous molecules in brain extracellular fluid metabolomics can provide
insight into the regulatory mechanisms and functions of sleep. Here we studied how the …