Effect of the Microbiome on Oral and Systemic Health in Companion Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Companion Animals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 January 2027 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editors
Interests: oral mucosal disease; oral medicine; oral disease and systemic disease; microbiome
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Dear Colleagues,
Complex ecosystems of microorganisms live in association with animal hosts and of these, the microbial ecosystems in the oral cavity are amongst the most complex. Interactions between the microbiome and innate and adaptive arms of host immunity help the host to respond appropriately to these triggers. Current techniques for microbiome analysis have revolutionized our understanding of the crosstalk between the host immune system and host-associated microbes in both healthy and diseased states. With this Special Issue, we want to focus on the effect of the microbiome on oral and systemic health in companion animals.
The focus of this series is to highlight publications that elucidate the role of the oral microbiome in companion animal systemic health. The scope will include investigations in oral health and disease states that are inflammatory, neoplastic, or immune-mediated in nature. A specific focus includes metagenomic, metatranscriptomic and metabolomic approaches to define functional pathways relevant to various disease states. We propose that there are associations between oral and gastrointestinal health, between neoplasia and oral dysbiosis and between inflammatory diseases in various organ systems and the mucosal microbiome.
Through this targeted series, we aim to add meaningful content to the current body of veterinary literature on the role of the oral microbiome in oral health and systemic disease. We invite manuscripts of original clinical research addressing veterinary microbiology in oral health and systemic disease in companion animals.
Dr. Jamie Gail Anderson
Dr. Maria M. Soltero-Rivera
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oral
- microbiome
- dysbiosis
- mucosal immune system
- next-generation-sequencing
- metatranscriptomics
- veterinary companion animal health
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