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    The airway microbiota of neonates colonized with asthma-associated pathogenic bacteria

    Culture techniques have associated colonization with pathogenic bacteria in the airways of neonates with later risk of childhood asthma, whereas more recent studies utilizing sequencing techniques have shown t...

    Jonathan Thorsen, Xuan Ji Li, Shuang Peng, Rikke Bjersand Sunde in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Genome binning of viral entities from bulk metagenomics data

    Despite the accelerating number of uncultivated virus sequences discovered in metagenomics and their apparent importance for health and disease, the human gut virome and its interactions with bacteria in the g...

    Joachim Johansen, Damian R. Plichta, Jakob Nybo Nissen in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Prenatal dietary supplements influence the infant airway microbiota in a randomized factorial clinical trial

    Maternal dietary interventions during pregnancy with fish oil and high dose vitamin D have been shown to reduce the incidence of asthma and wheeze in offspring, potentially through microbial effects in pregnan...

    Mathis H. Hjelmsø, Shiraz A. Shah, Jonathan Thorsen in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Virulent coliphages in 1-year-old children fecal samples are fewer, but more infectious than temperate coliphages

    Bacteriophages constitute an important part of the human gut microbiota, but their impact on this community is largely unknown. Here, we cultivate temperate phages produced by 900 E. coli strains isolated from 64...

    Aurélie Mathieu, Moïra Dion, Ling Deng, Denise Tremblay in Nature Communications (2020)