Human Microbiota Influence on Human Health Status
A special issue of Applied Microbiology (ISSN 2673-8007).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 37916
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Dear Colleagues,
Microbes colonize all living organisms, and the microbial communities that peacefully coexist with the host are collectively called “microbiota”. In this microbial ecosystem, in addition to bacteria are also present eukaryotes, viruses, and bacteriophages. The overall microbiota genome, named the microbiome, has a coding capacity that far exceeds that of the human genome, providing functional characteristics that humans have not evolved. This has given rise to the perception that humans are hybrid super-organisms made up of human cells and microbial cells. These microbial communities begin to assemble on us before we are born, and follow us throughout our life, strongly influencing our state of health. Today even compartments which have always been considered sterile appear to be colonized; several research works report a blood microbiota, or a lung microbiota. The term dysbiosis indicates an ecosystem where bacteria no longer live together in mutual harmony. The list of pathologies related to this status is increasing day by day.
The focus of this Special Issue is on the assembly of original research and review articles on human microbiota (skin, nasal, oral, gut, vaginal, blood, lung, etc.) and its impact on human health status.
Prof. Serena Schippa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Human microbiota
- Bacteriome, virome, phageome, and mycome
- Metabolomics
- Probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics
- Ecosystem balance
- Dysbiosis
- Eubiosis
- Biodiversity
- Health status
- Therapeutics strategies to restore gut microbiota balance
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