oral microbiota
Microbes migrating from the mouth to the gut may play a role in gastric cancer and could become targets for diagnosis or treatment.
In periodontitis, helpful gum bacteria become less active while harmful bacteria change their behavior to feed on available nutrients and worsen disease, suggesting new targeted treatment approaches.
Computer models combining oral bacteria, their metabolic functions, and saliva chemicals could better distinguish obese from healthy individuals compared with clinical measurements alone.
The oral microbiome is not a dental concern. It is a medical frontier.
Pneumonia involves shifts in the entire lung microbial community, which interact with a person’s immune response.
Gianfranco Grompone, Chief Scientific Officer at BioGaia GA, discusses the new evidences about oral microbiome.
Certain harmful microbes in the mouth appear to promote cancer development, while others might help protect against it.
The researchers created a microbial catalog, which they called HROM (human reference oral microbiome), containing 72,641 high-quality genomes from 3,426 species.
Environments and social factors shape human microbiotas.
Maternal oral microbiota plays a key role in influencing infant gut health and disease risk.
