ReviewCell2024
Microbial transmission in the social microbiome and host health and disease.
Review in Cell, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- How loneliness and social isolation are linked to cognitive decline among older adults? A systematic review of underlying physiological and psychobehavioral mechanisms.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Pooled it
- Microbiome and One Health in GCC countries: current status, research gaps, and future directions.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Pooled it
- Partner fidelity, not geography, drives co-diversification of gut microbiota with hominids.Biology letters · 2025Pooled it
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- The adaptation of the gut microbiome to social environmental changes in an Asian langur.iScience · 2026Article
- The Hidden Burden of Water-Binding Additives in Meat Products: Biochemical, Clinical, and Psychosocial Implications.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2026Review
- Toward Meta-Omics Governance of the Urban Microbiome Commons.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Review
- Effects of Different Living Environments on Intestinal Flora in Patients With Schistosoma Japonicum-Induced Liver Fibrosis.MicrobiologyOpen · 2026Article
- Decoding Microbiota-Immune Interplay in Viral Pathogenesis: Toward Next-Generation Antiviral Therapies.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- The island biology of the host microbiome.Trends in microbiology · 2026Review
- Evolutionary Genomics of Human Gut Bacteria: Ecological Plasticity Across the Mutualism-Pathogenicity Spectrum.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
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- Stand Age-Associated Rhizosphere Bacterial Succession in the Desert ShrubMicroorganisms · 2026Article
- A Genome-based Machine Learning Model for Safety Assessment of Microorganisms.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Article
- Breastfeeding may lessen socioeconomic disparities in child health through differences in the infant gut microbiome.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Microbial transmission among giant panda, sympatric wildlife, and domesticated animals.iScience · 2026Article
- Cross-species fecal microbiota transplantation alters the carbohydrate metabolic phenotype: insights from Gansu zokor (Eospalax cansus).BMC veterinary research · 2026Article
- Toward ethical human microbiome research: improving health through radical interdisciplinary and intercultural co-laboration.Microbiome · 2026Article
- Gut Luminal Exosomes in Young and Old Mice: Multi-Omic Characteristics and Regulation of Gut Permeability.Aging cell · 2026Article
- Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Although social interactions are known to drive pathogen transmission, the contributions of socially transmissible host-associated mutualists and commensals to host health and disease remain poorly explored. We use the concept of the social microbiome-the microbial metacommunity of a social network of hosts-to analyze the implications of social microbial transmission for host health and disease. We investigate the contributions of socially transmissible microbes to both eco-evolutionary microbiome community processes (colonization resistance, the evolution of virulence, and reactions to ecological disturbance) and microbial transmission-based processes (transmission of microbes with metabolic and immune effects, inter-specific transmission, transmission of antibiotic-resistant microbes, and transmission of viruses). We consider the implications of social microbial transmission for communicable and non-communicable diseases and evaluate the importance of a socially transmissible component underlying canonically non-communicable diseases. The social transmission of mutualists and commensals may play a significant, under-appreciated role in the social determinants of health and may act as a hidden force in social evolution.
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