Human Host–Microbiota Interactions
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 3868
Special Issue Editors
University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Interests: fungal and bacterial genetics; pathogenesis; host–microbe interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are soliciting article submissions for this Special Issue of MDPI Vaccines, titled “Human Host–Microbiota Interactions”. Humans are colonized by trillions of microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, and fungi as well as viruses. The human microbiome has been a major area of global research focus for over a decade. With thousands of research articles published to date, we now have a good understanding of the composition of the human gut, oral, and skin microbiota as well as the environmental and host genetic factors that affect microbial composition. Most of the findings have been correlative, and we still know very little about the molecular mechanisms of how microbiota interact with and manipulate the human host. In this Special Issue, we will include reviews of our current understanding of host–microbiota interactions in humans and research articles presenting new findings of the molecular details of interactions between microbiota and the human host. Future research focusing on human host–microbiota interactions will improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of how these interactions occur and will allow us to develop intervention strategies to manipulate microbial composition or function to improve human health.
Prof. Dr. Sinem Beyhan
Prof. Dr. Karen E. Nelson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microbiome
- mycobiome
- gut microbiota
- skin microbiota
- oral microbiota
- host response
- health and disease
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