Microbe-Mediated Intestinal Diseases in Humans and Animals
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 10672
Special Issue Editors
Interests: host-microbe interactions at the gastrointestinal tract (inflammatory bowel diseases; necrotic enteritis; Campylobacteriosis; colorectal cancer)
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Interests: environmental-factor-induced vascular inflammation and injury (understanding the signaling mechanisms)
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Interests: host-microbe interactions at the gastrointestinal tract (necrotic enteritis; Campylobacteriosis; vaccination)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The gastrointestinal tract not only digests food, but it also absorbs nutrients and harbors a complex community of trillions of microbes, including bacteria, archaea, virus, and eukarya. The dynamic interaction of intestinal microbes with the host and among themselves influences the host health and diseases at gut and systematic levels. Several intestinal diseases result from dysfunctional host–microbe or microbe–microbe interaction, such as inflammatory bowel diseases, Clostridium difficile infection, colorectal cancer, poultry necrotic enteritis, and swine postweaning diarrhea. Although a growing body of studies have brought significant insight into those interactions during gut health and diseases, much knowledge remains to be discovered. In addition, the emergence of antibiotic resistance in agricultural and medical fields prompts the need for effective antibiotic-free alternatives, such as symbiotic microbes and metabolites, vaccines, and bioactive small molecules.
This Special Issue, titled “Microbe-Mediated Intestinal Diseases in Humans and Animals”, will aim to report an advanced understanding of the role of the gut microbes in the healthy condition and in the pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of digestive diseases, including small intestine and large intestine disorders in the presence of microbial pathogens, microbiota, and microbiota metabolites.
Both original research and review articles regarding human and animal are welcomed. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Infectious intestinal disease mechanisms;
- Infectious intestinal disease prevention or treatment;
- Microbiota, metabolome/metabolites in intestinal diseases;
- Inflammation in intestinal diseases;
- Microbiota/metabolite and intestinal tumorigenesis;
- Digestion, absorption, and microbes.
Dr. Xiaolun Sun
Dr. Zhenquan Jia
Guest Editors
Dr. Ying Fu
Co-Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Gastrointestinal/digestive diseases
- Bacterial pathogens
- Viral pathogens
- Eukaryotic pathogens
- Pathogen virulence
- Microbiota Metabolome
- Host response
- Inflammation
- Intestinal tumorigenesis
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