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Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) drive silage fermentation, yet the technology space recorded in the patent literature remains unmapped. This review analyses 1585 patent documents on LAB for animal feed and silage, retrieved from INCOPAT for 2016–202...

Long-term continuous cropping of Ophiopogon japonicus leads to continuous cropping problems, and this practice threatens the long-term viability of O. japonicus production. Currently, the intrinsic relationship between the deterioration of soil physi...

Candida auris represents a growing challenge in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), where extreme prematurity, invasive support, diagnostic uncertainty, and environmental persistence complicate both clinical management and infection prevention. We...

Akkermansia muciniphila (AKK) and its pasteurized form (pAKK) have demonstrated metabolic benefits, but whether their outer membrane protein Amuc_1100 can reproduce these effects in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) remains unclear. We compared live A...

Wheat germ is a nutrient-rich cereal by-product with potential for valorization through fermentation. This study employed ¹H NMR metabolomics to characterize the soluble metabolomic profiles of whole soft wheat germ (WWG) and industrially defatted du...

Dietary tryptophan may influence early host and microbial development, but responses to different supplementation levels in dairy calves remain unclear. This study examined the effects of tryptophan supplementation on organ development, hematological...

Microbial spatial distribution patterns represent a fundamental question in microbial biogeography. However, existing evidence primarily stems from regional and global scales. This study focused on Nematode-Trapping Fungi (NTF) within the Lasha Mount...

Plant species diversity can enhance soil organic carbon (SOC) storage, but the microbial processes associated with this relationship remain incompletely understood in subtropical forests. We surveyed 20 natural forest plots spanning a Shannon–W...

The Tam Giang–Cau Hai lagoon system comprises five interconnected lagoon units: Tam Giang, Tam Thanh–Sam, Ha Trung, Thuy Tu, and Cau Hai. To our knowledge, this is the first 16S rRNA-based characterization of prokaryotic communities encom...

Intensive larviculture of the South American ribbed mussel (Aulacomya atra) is constrained by recurrent mortality during pre-metamorphic development. This study characterized cultivable bacteria associated with an acute 79% mortality event on day 12...

Continuous cultivation and fertiliser inputs restructure the spatial distribution of soil nutrient pools and drive the evolution of the underlying soil microenvironment. To elucidate the effects of long-term agricultural interventions on nutrient dyn...

Recombinant collagen is an attractive alternative to animal-derived collagen for applications in tissue engineering, wound repair, regenerative medicine, and advanced aesthetic biomaterials. However, many microbial production hosts lack sufficient en...

Infectious bursal disease (IBD) is an acute, highly contagious, and immunosuppressive disease of poultry caused by the infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV). For more than 30 years, the very virulent IBDV (vvIBDV) characterized by high mortality has...

Irritable bowel syndrome is a disorder of gut–brain interaction characterized by recurrent abdominal pain and altered bowel habits. Interactions among intestinal microorganisms and their metabolites, the epithelial barrier, mucosal immunity, an...

Respiratory viruses with broad host ranges are relevant to veterinary epidemiology, biological safety, and One Health surveillance. This retrospective study integrated companion-animal and wildlife records to examine two complementary surveillance qu...

The family Lachnospiraceae is among the most abundant obligately anaerobic taxa in the healthy human gut. Its core function—fermentation of dietary fibre to produce short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), chiefly butyrate—makes it a key node lin...

Escherichia coli sequence type 1193 (ST1193) is an emerging global high-risk clone, but its mother–infant gut carriage remains poorly characterized. Using selective culture, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and whole-genome sequencing, we...

Understanding how rhizosphere microbial communities and root-associated metabolites respond to nitrate-to-ammonium nitrogen ratios is critical for optimizing sesame nitrogen management. Three NO₃⁻-N:NH₄⁺-N ratios (NB1 = 10:0, NB2 = 6:4, and NB4...

Halophytes are thought to recruit nitrogen (N)-cycling microorganisms that alleviate nutrient limitation in coastal saline soils, yet the relative importance of geographic environment versus halophyte identity in structuring these communities remains...

Pseudomonas fluorescens forms biofilms on food-contact surfaces, contributing to persistent contamination in food-processing environments. Plant-derived extracts rich in phenolic compounds offer promising alternatives for controlling bacterial coloni...

Ligula spp. are widespread cestodes, but their epidemiology remains insufficiently characterized across Romanian freshwater ecosystems. This study investigated factors associated with Ligula sp. plerocercoid infection in fish. A total of 8547 fish re...

We characterized the cryptic plasmid pM27181 (15,416 bp) isolated from the Stutzerimonas stutzeri strain DIA-8. Sequencing and bioinformatic analysis allowed identification of 20 open reading frames, including genes involved in replication (rep), mob...

Hyperuricemia (HUA) is a metabolic disorder characterized by elevated serum uric acid (UA) levels resulting from the dysregulation of purine metabolism. The use of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) to alleviate HUA has attracted considerable attention. This...

Blastocystis sp. is a common intestinal protist colonizing humans and a wide range of animals, and pigs are considered an important animal host for several subtypes with potential zoonotic relevance. Although porcine Blastocystis has previously been...

Hyperuricemia (HUA), a metabolic disorder strongly associated with gout and chronic kidney disease, has emerged as a target for probiotic-based complementary interventions. Three newly isolated lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains were evaluated indivi...

Pseudorabies, an acute multi-host zoonotic infectious disease, is etiologically caused by the pseudorabies virus (PRV). As a naturally occurring infection in swine, pseudorabies imposes substantial economic losses on the global swine industry. Furthe...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a rapidly growing global health burden and a major driver of infection-related morbidity and mortality. Chronic hyperglycemia disrupts both innate and adaptive immunity through impaired complement activity, dysfunctional den...

Lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV), a capripoxvirus that causes substantial animal-health and economic losses in cattle, remains a major veterinary concern, with few specific antiviral options available. Here, a series of semi-synthetic Tylosin A deriva...

Chemotherapy remains foundational to oncology, yet treatment response, resistance, and gastrointestinal toxicity vary widely between patients in ways that tumor stage, molecular subtype, and host pharmacogenomics do not fully explain. The gut microbi...

The southern Adriatic Sea is an oligotrophic basin influenced by seasonal stratification, winter convection, inflow of Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW), and spreading of North Adriatic Dense Water (NAdDW). This review synthesizes knowledge on plank...

The endonuclear symbiont Holospora obtusa invades the macronucleus of Paramecium caudatum using an infectious-form invasion tip containing a major 89-kDa periplasmic protein implicated in escape from the host digestive vacuole and macronuclear invasi...

Long-term stability of veterinary disinfectants depends not only on the preservation of active-ingredient content but also on the maintenance of biological efficacy. This study evaluated the 24-month real-time chemical and virucidal stability of five...

Bacterial collective behaviour emerges from the interplay of three distinct dynamical processes: quorum sensing (QS) mediates density-dependent gene regulation, chemotaxis directs movement along chemical gradients, and flocking aligns individual traj...

Distinguishing active tuberculosis (ATB) from latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) remains a critical unmet need in tuberculosis control. PANoptosis, a newly recognized form of programmed cell death (PCD) integrating pyroptosis, apoptosis, and necrop...

Tenacibaculum maritimum is an important bacterial pathogen of marine fish, causing disease outbreaks in aquaculture worldwide and raising concerns about antimicrobial resistance. This study investigated the genomic diversity, predicted serotype distr...

Seasonal human coronaviruses (HCoVs) remain underrepresented in genomic surveil-lance in Central Asia. We applied species-specific tiled amplicon sequencing on the Oxford Nanopore Technologies platform to residual HCoV-positive respiratory samples co...

The gut microbiota has been implicated in cardiovascular disease, but its association with subclinical carotid atherosclerosis (AS) and potential sex differences remain incompletely understood. Associations between gut microbiota composition and subc...

The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, is a globally distributed agricultural pest. Metarhizium robertsii is an entomopathogenic fungus (EPF) with great application potential for the biological control of S. frugiperda. Nevertheless, to date, ther...

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Microbiome-derived signatures are increasingly investigated as diagnostic biomarkers in children, yet their clinical readiness remains uncertain because pediatric microbiomes vary substantially with age, development, diet, medication exposure, geogra...

Human gut microbiome recovery estimates depend on when samples are collected, which reference is used and how community differences are measured. We reanalyzed public profiles from three perturbation cohorts and two longitudinal comparison cohorts, t...

Plants are associated with diverse microbial communities that play a crucial role in plant growth promotion and improving stability under stress conditions. Microbiome engineering involves the targeted manipulation, recruitment, and optimization of p...

Estuarine wetlands are significant stocks of soil organic carbon (SOC) and play an essential role in carbon sequestration. However, how natural salinity gradients shape carbon-fixing microbial communities and functional genes remains poorly understoo...

Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16) is one of the major pathogens responsible for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD), for which no specific antiviral therapy is currently available. Neochlorogenic acid (NCGA) and chlorogenic acid (CGA) are a pair of chiral...

Synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) offer a sustainable strategy for promoting crop growth, yet SynComs derived from oat endophytes and their mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, endophytic bacteria were isolated from oat roots to constru...

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, is a devastating bacterial disease affecting pear orchards and has been reported in Tunisia since 2012/2013. Accurate prediction of infection risk is essential for timely disease management. This study aimed...

The maedi-visna virus (MVV) remains endemic in many agricultural countries, including the Netherlands, causing chronic disease, animal welfare concerns, and economic losses. In addition to conventional control programs based on serological surveillan...

Family farming is central to Brazilian milk production, yet smallholder dairy systems in agrarian settlements often have limited access to veterinary assistance and microbiological diagnosis. This study describes the bacteria recovered from 2432 quar...

Staphylococcus epidermidis encodes a variety of virulence- and pathogenicity-associated factors. These factors are insufficiently characterized owing to the absence of clearly defined criteria distinguishing clinically relevant S. epidermidis from co...

Antimicrobial resistance represents a major global health challenge, and hospital-based antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are essential for promoting appropriate antibiotic use. This study aimed to introduce and implement an ASP in a universi...