Transmission of human-associated microbiota along family and social networks
I. L. Brito, T. Gurry, S. Zhao, K. Huang, S. Young, T. Shea, W. Naisilisili, A. Jenkins, S. Jupiter, D. Gevers, E. J. Alm
The paper examines bacterial transmission in gut and oral microbiomes of a closed cohort in Fiji, finding weak but significant transmission within households and between spouses using strain-level data.
bioRxiv · Feb 5, 2019Microbiology