ArticleMicroorganisms2025
Effects of Long-Term Heavy Metal Exposure on the Species Diversity, Functional Diversity, and Network Structure of Oral Mycobiome.
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- Oral Mycobiome: Composition, Functionality and Clinical Implication.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Toward Smart Salivary Diagnostics: A Comprehensive Review of Heavy Metal Biomarkers and Digital Risk Modeling.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Diet-Oral Microbiota Interactions and Salivary Biomarkers of Nutritional Health: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2026Review
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Abstract
Oral fungal homeostasis is closely related to the state of human health, and its composition is influenced by various factors. At present, the effects of long-term soil heavy metal exposure on the oral fungi of local populations have not been adequately studied. In this study, we used inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to detect heavy metals in agricultural soils from two areas in Gansu Province, northwestern China. ITS amplicon sequencing was used to analyze the community composition of oral buccal mucosa fungi from local village residents. Simultaneously, the functional annotation of fungi was performed using FUNGuild, and co-occurrence networks were constructed to analyze the interactions of different functional fungi. The results showed that the species diversity of the oral fungi of local populations in the soil heavy metal exposure group was lower than that of the control population. The relative abundance of
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