Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions.

摘要: Although they are abundant and even dominant members of animal microbiomes (microbiotas), from sponges termites to mice cattle, archaea in our own have received much less attention than their bacterial counterparts. The fact that human-associated been relatively little-studied may be at least partially attributed the lack any established archaeal human pathogens [1,2]. Clinically oriented microbiology courses often do not mention all, most medical school biology students only aware as exotic extremophiles strange eukaryotic-like molecular machinery. Since known associated with gut for several decades, one would think microbiome studies unravel new facets archaea–human interactions. However, adequate universal primers amplify both small 16S rRNA genes but host were published mid-2011 [3], thus, many chose focus on bacteria alone rather multiply effort expense cover taxa considered secondary importance, if altogether rare. Here, we provide a brief overview what is currently about body potential effects health (for additional reviews involvement disease, see [4–8]).