Federica Pinto

TL;DR: Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage, although no evidence of COVID-19 transmission has been found via this route, could be advantageously exploited as an early warning of outbreaks.

TL;DR: The role of the human gut microbiome in immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) response appears more complex than previously thought, extending beyond differing microbial species simply present or absent in responders and nonresponders as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: The utility of ViromeQC is demonstrated by applying it to 2,050 human, animal and environmental samples from 35 metagenomic virome sequencing studies that used one of the available VLP enrichment techniques, revealing these viromes to be rife with bacterial, archaeal and fungal contamination.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors performed an integrated shotgun metagenomic systematic meta-analysis of new and publicly available stool microbiomes collected from 226 triads of donors, pre-FMT recipients and post FMT recipients across eight different disease types, and found that recipients with higher donor strain engraftment were more likely to experience clinical success after FMT.

TL;DR: This study reports the activity of two biguanides against MS2 bacteriophage used as a surrogate virus for nonenveloped mammalian viruses and provides an explanation as to their apparent limited efficacy.