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A Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic genus within the lachnospiraceae family (Firmicutes phylum). Dorea occupies a mixed role in the gut ecosystem -- while it is a core member of the healthy human microbiome, several species are consistently enriched in autoimmune and ne…
The only archaeon represented in this wiki -- Methanobrevibacter smithii is the dominant methane-producing microorganism in the human gut, belonging to the domain Archaea rather than Bacteria. As a hydrogenotrophic methanogen, it converts H2 + CO2 into methane (CH4), pl…
A Gram-positive obligate anaerobe that has emerged as a pro-inflammatory pathobiont enriched across multiple disease states including crohns disease, depression, and multiple sclerosis. R. gnavus produces a species-specific inflammatory polysaccharide that activates int…
Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a unicellular budding fungus (ascomycete) ubiquitous in fermentation, brewing, bread-making, and increasingly used as a pharmaceutical probiotic (Hatoum et al. 2012). The strain S. boulardii (also called S. cerevisiae var. boulardii) is the m…