Colliding and interacting microbiomes and microbial communities - consequences for human health

© 2021 The Authors. Environmental Microbiology published by Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

Living 'things' coexist with microorganisms, known as the microbiota/microbiome that provides essential physiological functions to its host. Despite this reliance, the microbiome is malleable and can be altered by several factors including birth-mode, age, antibiotics, nutrition, and disease. In this minireview, we consider how other microbiomes and microbial communities impact the host microbiome and the host through the concept of microbiome collisions (initial exposures) and interactions. Interactions include changes in host microbiome composition and functionality and/or host responses. Understanding the impact of other microbiomes and microbial communities on the microbiome and host are important considering the decline in human microbiota diversity in the developed world - paralleled by the surge of non-communicable, inflammatory-based diseases. Thus, surrounding ourselves with rich and diverse beneficial microbiomes and microbial communities to collide and interact with should help to diminish the loss in microbial diversity and protect from certain diseases. In the same vein, our microbiomes not only influence our health but potentially the health of those close to us. We also consider strategies for enhanced host microbiome collisions and interactions through the surrounding environment that ensure increased microbiome diversity and functionality contributing to enhanced symbiotic return to the host in terms of health benefit.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Environmental microbiology - 23(2021), 12 vom: 08. Dez., Seite 7341-7354

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mills, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Ross, Reynolds Paul [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Date Completed 17.03.2022

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/1462-2920.15722

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329343696