Title: Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions
Headings: Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions
Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions
Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions
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Archaea in the Human Gut
Subgingival Archaea
Archaea on the Human Skin
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
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Content: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004833
Editor: Joseph Heitman, Duke University Medical Center, UNITED STATES
Published: June 11, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Lurie-Weinberger, Gophna. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this study. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Although they are abundant and even dominant members of animal microbiomes (microbiotas), from sponges and termites to mice and cattle, archaea in our own microbiomes have received much less attention than their bacterial counterparts. The fact that human-associated archaea have been relatively little-studied may be at least partially attributed to the lack of any established archaeal human pathogens [ 1, 2 ].