Understanding the Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease

Marcio Carvalho Costa; Jeffrey Scott Weese

doi:10.1016/j.cveq.2017.11.005

Understanding the Intestinal Microbiome in Health and Disease

Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract. 2018 Apr;34(1):1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cveq.2017.11.005.

Authors

Marcio Carvalho Costa¹, Jeffrey Scott Weese²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary Biomedicine, University of Montreal, 3200 Rue Sicotte, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec J2S 2M2, Canada. Electronic address: marcio.costa@umontreal.ca.
² Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.

PMID: 29402480
DOI: 10.1016/j.cveq.2017.11.005

Abstract

This article provides readers with the basic concepts necessary to understand studies using recent molecular methods performed in intestinal microbiome assessment, with special emphasis on the high throughput sequencing. This review also summarizes the current knowledge on this topic and discusses future insights on the interaction between the intestinal microbiome and equine health.

Keywords: 16S rRNA; Equine; Horse; Intestinal microbiota; Next-generation sequencing.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Horse Diseases / microbiology*
Horses / microbiology*
Humans