The role of gut mycobiome in health and diseases

The gut microbiome comprised of microbes from multiple kingdoms, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Emerging evidence suggests that the intestinal fungi (the gut “mycobiome”) play an important role in host immunity and inflammation. Advances in next generation sequencing methods to study the fungi in fecal samples and mucosa tissues have expanded our understanding of gut fungi in intestinal homeostasis and systemic immunity in health and their contribution to different human diseases. In this review, the current status of gut mycobiome in health, early life, and different diseases including inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer, and metabolic diseases were summarized.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

• Publication date

  2021-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1177/17562848211047130PMID 34589139PMCID 8474302
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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