Microbiome and infectious disease: diagnostics to therapeutics

Rawan Zaatry; Rachel Herren; Tal Gefen; Naama Geva-Zatorsky

doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105345

Microbiome and infectious disease: diagnostics to therapeutics

Microbes Infect. 2024 Sep-Oct;26(7):105345. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105345. Epub 2024 Apr 25.

Authors

Rawan Zaatry¹, Rachel Herren¹, Tal Gefen¹, Naama Geva-Zatorsky²

Affiliations

¹ Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Rappaport Technion Integrated Cancer Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
² Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Rappaport Technion Integrated Cancer Center, Technion, Haifa, Israel; CIFAR, Humans & the Microbiome, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: naama_gz@technion.ac.il.

PMID: 38670215
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2024.105345

Abstract

Over 300 years of research on the microbial world has revealed their importance in human health and disease. This review explores the impact and potential of microbial-based detection methods and therapeutic interventions, integrating research of early microbiologists, current findings, and future perspectives.

Keywords: Diagnostics; Host-pathogen interactions; Infectious disease; Microbiota; Pathogens; Surveillance and therapy.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Communicable Diseases* / diagnosis
Communicable Diseases* / microbiology
Communicable Diseases* / therapy
Humans
Microbiota*