Gut microbiome of helminth-infected indigenous Malaysians is context dependent

• Main Authors: Man, Zi Tee, Yi, Xian Er, Alice V., Easton, Nan, Jiun Yap, Li, Li Lee, Joseph, Devlin, Ze, Chen, Kee, Seong Ng, Pooranii, Subramanian, Angelina, Angelova, Oyebola, Oyesola, Shushan, Sargsian, Romano, Ngui, Daniel P., Beiting, Christopher Chiong, Meng Boey, Kek, Heng Chua, Ken, Cadwell, Yvonne Ai Lian, Lim, P’ng, Loke, Soo, Ching Lee
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2022
• Subjects: QR Microbiology; R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42046/1/Gut.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42046/; https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-022-01385-x; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01385-x

Background: While microbiomes in industrialized societies are well characterized, indigenous populations with traditional lifestyles have microbiomes that are more akin to those of ancient humans. However, metagenomic data in these populations remains scarce, and the association with soil-transmit...