Microbe Magazine

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Virus-Induced Obesity in Humans
In 1998, officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global epidemic of obesity, recognizing the steady rise in its prevalence in both developed and developing countries since about 1980. Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI in kg/m2) value of at least 30, doubled...
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Clostridium difficile Linked to Disrupted Gut Microbiota
That excerpt comes from an editorial that accompanied a 1953 report describing postoperative, antibiotic-associated enterocolitis, which emerged early during the antibiotic era. Yet, those 60-year-old comments are apropos to our current challenge from the toxigenic anaerobe More...
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“Can't Live without You:” Essential Animal-Bacterial Relationships
For billions of years, the bacteria (Eubacteria and Archea) had this planet to themselves. This exclusivity changed with the origin of the eukaryotes, little more than 1 billion years ago. In one of the greatest turning points in the history of life, eukaryotic cellular organization permitted gre...
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