"Microbiota" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The full collection of microbes (bacteria, fungi, virus, etc.) that naturally exist within a particular biological niche such as an organism, soil, a body of water, etc.
| Descriptor ID |
D064307
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G06.591 G16.500.275.157.049.100.500 N06.230.124.049.100.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Human Microbiome- Human Microbiome
- Human Microbiomes
- Microbiomes, Human
- Microbiome, Human
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| 2014 | 12 | 7 | 19 |
| 2015 | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| 2016 | 13 | 4 | 17 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7 | 17 |
| 2018 | 12 | 8 | 20 |
| 2019 | 20 | 4 | 24 |
| 2020 | 25 | 6 | 31 |
| 2021 | 14 | 7 | 21 |
| 2022 | 27 | 2 | 29 |
| 2023 | 26 | 0 | 26 |
| 2024 | 21 | 3 | 24 |
| 2025 | 18 | 2 | 20 |
| 2026 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Microbiota" by people in Profiles.
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Empiric azithromycin alters the upper respiratory microbiome and resistome without anti-inflammatory benefit in COVID-19. Nat Microbiol. 2026 Apr; 11(4):1100-1112.
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New approaches to uncover COPD pathobiology and develop therapies. JCI Insight. 2026 Feb 23; 11(4).
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Underexplored maternal microbiomes: immune, metabolic, and microbial pathways shaping pregnancy outcomes. Infect Immun. 2026 Mar 10; 94(3):e0060825.
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Defining Microbiome Impact on Host Physiology During Spaceflight Using Caenorhabditis elegans. Methods Mol Biol. 2026; 3000:251-275.
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Microbiome Profiling in Chagas Disease: Sample Collection, Sequencing, and Analysis. Methods Mol Biol. 2026; 3013:265-297.
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The hologenome in brain health and disease. Neuron. 2026 Jan 21; 114(2):212-225.
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STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Dec; 10(12):3059-3068.
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Characterization of the tumor microbiome of brain metastases and glioblastoma reveals tumor-type-specific and location-specific microbial signatures. Nat Cancer. 2025 Nov; 6(11):1761-1776.
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Microbial signals in primary and metastatic brain tumors. Nat Med. 2025 Nov; 31(11):3675-3688.
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LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation. Nat Commun. 2025 Oct 24; 16(1):9353.