Raaj S. Mehta

TL;DR: In the UK and the USA, risk of reporting a positive test for COVID-19 was increased among front-line health-care workers, and adequacy of PPE, clinical setting, and ethnic background were also important factors.

TL;DR: Prudent diets rich in whole grains and dietary fiber are associated with a lower risk for F nucleatum–positive colorectal cancer but not Fucleatum–negative cancer, supporting a potential role for intestinal microbiota in mediating the association between diet and coloreCTal neoplasms.

TL;DR: Frontline HCWs had a significantly increased risk of COVID-19 infection, highest among HCWs who reused PPE or had inadequate access to PPE, however, adequate supplies of PPE did not completely mitigate high-risk exposures.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a single measurement of the faecal microbiome can provide long-term information regarding organismal composition and functional potential, but repeated or short-term measures may be necessary for dynamic features identified by metatranscriptomics.

TL;DR: An initial characterization of human faecal microbial ecology into core, subject-specific, microorganism-specific and temporally variable transcription is provided, and a metatranscriptomic 'core' universally transcribed over time and across participants is identified, often by different microorganisms.