Characterization of Gut Microbiome in Liver Transplant Recipients With Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.

Unlabelled: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its progressive form nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are a growing problem globally and recur even after liver transplant (LT). We aim to characterize the gut dysbiosis in patients who developed recurrent NAFLD compared with patients without recurrence following LT.

Methods: Twenty-one patients who received LT for NASH and had a protocol liver biopsy performed beyond 1-y post-LT were included prospectively (January 2018-December 2018).

Association of Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance in -Statistical and Computational Insights into a Selected Set of Clinical Isolates.

The acquisition of antibiotic resistance (AR) by foodborne pathogens, such as , has emerged as a serious public health concern. The relationship between the two key survival mechanisms (i.e.

Infant wheezing and prenatal antibiotic exposure and mode of delivery: a prospective birth cohort study.

Assessments on whether prenatal antibiotic exposure and mode of delivery increase the risk of wheezing in infants and toddlers are inconsistent. Our goal is to evaluate the association between prenatal antibiotic use and Cesarean section with three subtypes of wheezing in infancy. An ongoing prospective three generations cohort study provides data on prenatal antibiotic use and mode of delivery.

Application of high-throughput pyrosequencing in the analysis of microbiota of food commodities procured from small and large retail outlets in a U.S. metropolitan area - A pilot study.

With the advent of high-throughput sequencing technologies, it is possible to comprehensively analyze the microbial community of foods without culturing them in the laboratory. The estimation of all microbes inhabiting a food commodity (food microbiota) therefore may shed light on the microbial quality and safety of foods. In this study, we utilized high-throughput pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes as well as traditional microbiological methods to evaluate the bacterial diversity and the predicted metabolic pathways associated with the bacterial communities of selected foods (romaine lettuce, cabbage, deli meat, and chicken legs, total 200 samples) procured from small and large retail outlets located in Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee, USA.