Andre Mu

Assessment of the microbiome during bacteriophage therapy in combination with systemic antibiotics to treat a case of staphylococcal device infection

Andre Mu, Daniel McDonald, Alan K Jarmusch, Cameron Martino, Caitriona Brennan, Mackenzie Bryant, Gregory C Humphrey, Julia Toronczak, Tara Schwartz, Dominic Nguyen, Gail Ackermann, Anthony D'Onofrio, Steffanie A Strathdee, Robert T Schooley, Pieter C Dorrestein, Rob Knight, Saima Aslam

Journal article  |  2021  |  MICROBIOME

BACKGROUND: Infectious bacterial diseases exhibiting increasing resistance to antibiotics are a serious global health issue. Bacte..

Microbiota control of maternal behavior regulates early postnatal growth of offspring.

Yujung Michelle Lee, Andre Mu, Martina Wallace, Jivani M Gengatharan, Annalee J Furst, Lars Bode, Christian M Metallo, Janelle S Ayres

Journal article  |  2021  |  Sci Adv

Maternal behavior is necessary for optimal development and growth of offspring. The intestinal microbiota has emerged as a critica..

Subsurface carbon monoxide oxidation capacity revealed through genome-resolved metagenomics of a carboxydotroph

Andre Mu, Brian C Thomas, Jillian F Banfield, John W Moreau

Journal article  |  2020  |  ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS

Microbial communities play important roles in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon in the Earth's deep subsurface. Previously, we ..

Microbe-Metabolite Associations Linked to the Rebounding Murine Gut Microbiome Postcolonization with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

Andre Mu, Glen P Carter, Lucy Li, Nicole S Isles, Alison F Vrbanac, James T Morton, Alan K Jarmusch, David P De Souza, Vinod K Narayana, Komal Kanojia, Brunda Nijagal, Malcolm J McConville, Rob Knight, Benjamin P Howden, Timothy P Stinear

Journal article  |  2020  |  MSYSTEMS

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is an emerging antibiotic-resistant pathogen. Strain-level investigations are be..

Feeling down? A systematic review of the gut microbiota in anxiety/depression and irritable bowel syndrome

Carra A Simpson, Andre Mu, Nick Haslam, Orli S Schwartz, Julian G Simmons

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS

Background Anxiety/depression and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are highly prevalent and burdensome conditions, whose co-occurren..

Microbiomes in the insectivorous bat species Mops condylurus rapidly converge in captivity

Kathryn M Edenborough, Andre Mu, Kristin Muehldorfer, Johanna Lechner, Angelika Lander, Marcel Bokelmann, Emmanuel Couacy-Hymann, Aleksandar Radonic, Andreas Kurth

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Bats are well known reservoir hosts for RNA and DNA viruses. The use of captive bats in research has intensified over the past dec..

Feeling down? A systematic review of the gut microbiota in anxiety/depression and irritable bowel syndrome

Carra A Simpson, Andre Mu, Nick Haslam, Orli S Schwartz, Julian G Simmons

Journal article  |  2020  |  NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY

Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants impair host immunity by activating host cell glycolysis and inducing necroptosis

Tania Wong Fok Lung, Ian R Monk, Karen P Acker, Andre Mu, Nancy Wang, Sebastian A Riquelme, Silvia Pires, Loreani P Noguera, Felix Dach, Stanislaw J Gabryszewski, Benjamin P Howden, Alice Prince

Journal article  |  2020  |  NATURE MICROBIOLOGY

Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants (SCVs) are frequently associated with chronic infection, yet they lack expression of m..

Mus musculus deficient for secretory antibodies show delayed growth with an altered urinary metabolome

Kim R Simpfendorfer, Nancy Wang, Dedreia L Tull, David P De Souza, Amsha Nahid, Andre Mu, Dianna M Hocking, John S Pedersen, Odilia LC Wijburg, Malcolm J McConville, Richard A Strugnell

Journal article  |  2019  |  MOLECULAR MEDICINE

BACKGROUND: The polymeric immunoglobulin receptor (pIgR) maintains the integrity of epithelial barriers by transporting polymeric ..

Engineering the microbiome for animal health and conservation

Se Jin Song, Douglas C Woodhams, Cameron Martino, Celeste Allaband, Andre Mu, Sandrine Javorschi-Miller-Montgomery, Jan S Suchodolski, Rob Knight

Journal article  |  2019  |  EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

IMPACT STATEMENT: Considering the clear effects of microbiota on important aspects of animal biology and development (including in..