Culturomics: A new approach to study the human microbiome

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1157-1159

  Greub, G ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOMICS; CHLAMYDIA; CULTUROMICS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; LEGIONELLA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84869128272     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12032     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Pflughoeft KJ, Versalovic J. Human microbiome in health and disease. Annu Rev Pathol 2012; 7: 99-122.
2. Baquero F, Nombela C. The microbiome as a human organ. Clin Microbiol Infect 2012; 18 (suppl 4): 2-4.
3. Stewart CJ, Marrs ECL, Magorrian S et al. The preterm gut microbiota: changes associated with necrotizing enterocolitis and infection. Acta Paediatr 2012; 101: 1121-1127.
4. Castellarin M, Warren RL, Freeman JD et al. Fusobacterium nucleatum infection is prevalent in human colorectal carcinoma. Genome Res 2012; 22: 299-306.
5. Michail S, Durbin M, Turner D et al. Alterations in the gut microbiome of children with severe ulcerative colitis. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2012; 18: 1799-1808.
6. Salonen A, Salojarvi J, Lahti L, de Vos WM. The adult intestinal core microbiota is determined by analysis depth and health status. Clin Microbiol Infect 2012; 18 (suppl 4): 16-20.
7. Lagier J-C, Armougom F, Million M et al. Microbial culturomics: paradigm shift in the human gut microbiome study. Clin Microbiol Infect 2012; 18: 1185-1193.
8. Seng P, Drancourt M, Gouriet F et al. Ongoing revolution in bacteriology: routine identification of bacteria by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Clin Infect Dis 2009; 49: 543-551.
9. Croxatto A, Greub G. Applications of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in clinical diagnostic microbiology. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2012; 36: 380-407.
10. Lienard J, Greub G. Discovering new pathogens : amoebae as tools to isolate amoebae-resisting micro-organisms from environmental samples. In: Keya Sen, Nicholas J Ashbolt eds, Environmental microbiology: current technology and water applications. Norfolk, UK: Caister Academic Press, 2011; 143-162.
11. Rowbotham TJ. Isolation of Legionella pneumophila from clinical specimens via amoebae, and the interaction of those and other isolates with amoebae. J Clin Pathol 1983; 36: 978-986.
12. Corsaro D, Feroldi V, Saucedo G, Ribas F, Loret JF, Greub G. Novel Chlamydiales strains isolated from a water treatment plant. Environ Microbiol 2009; 11: 188-200.
13. La Scola B, Boyadjiev I, Greub G, Khamis A, Martin C, Raoult D. Amoeba-resisting bacteria and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Emerg Infect Dis 2003; 9: 815-821.
14. Thomas V, Herrera-Rimann K, Blanc DS, Greub G. Biodiversity of amoebae and amoeba-resisting bacteria in a hospital water network. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72: 2428-2438.
15. Rowbotham TJ. Isolation of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 from human feces with use of amebic cocultures. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 26: 502-503.
16. Thomas V, Bertelli C, Collyn F et al. Lausannevirus, a giant amoebal virus encoding histone doublets. Environ Microbiol 2011; 13: 1454-1466.
17. Boyer M, Yutin N, Pagnier I et al. Giant Marseillevirus highlights the role of amoebae as a melting pot in emergence of chimeric microorganisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009; 106: 21848-21853.
18. Bakken JS, Borody T, Brandt LJ et al. Treating Clostridium difficile infection with fecal microbiota transplantation. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2011; 9: 1044-1049.