BACKGROUND: The gut microbiome and the host immune system interact synergistically to maintain intestinal health and defend against infections. Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5), known for recognizing bacterial flagellin, plays a pivotal role in this regulatory network. Despite significant advances in ...
Limited resource availability in the gut promotes competitive interactions between bacteria, which drive adaptive within-host evolution. While the role of bacterial adaptive evolution of bacterial communities has been extensively studied, its functional implications for host physiology remain unk...
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Susceptibility to C. difficile infection (CDI) is largely affected by the gut microbiota, which in turn is influenced by diet. However, the mechanism underlying the interplay between diet and the gut mic...
The aim of this study was to establish a mouse model of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) and to investigate the effects of intervention with live Parabacteroides distasonis and its culture supernatant on the fecal bile acid pool using a targeted metabolomics approach. By...
Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite capable of infecting nearly all warm-blooded animals, including humans, with epidemiological studies indicating remarkably high global infection. However, due to its complex life cycle, no effective vaccine has bee...
Pseudorabies virus infection causes intestinal flora disorder in animals, leading to diarrhea. To explore the effect of inactivated pseudorabies vaccine immunization on pseudorabies virus infection, this study sequenced the serum metabolome and intestinal microbiota of Hu sheep, analyzed their di...