{"id":11958,"date":"2022-02-21T11:33:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/?p=11958"},"modified":"2022-02-21T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T09:48:10","slug":"studies-of-human-microbiome-have-ignored-the-developing-world-potentially-compromising-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/studies-of-human-microbiome-have-ignored-the-developing-world-potentially-compromising-treatments\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies of human microbiome have ignored the developing world, potentially compromising treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1645436428327{margin-top: 36px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"news-article__hero__title\">Studies of human microbiome have ignored the developing world, potentially compromising treatments<\/h3>\n<hr\/>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/do\/10.1126\/science.ada1319\/full\/_20220215_on_field-work-diversity.jpg\" alt=\"Microbiome researcher Mar\u00eda Gloria Dom\u00ednguez-Bello works with a team from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research to collect microbial samples from people living in remote places in Venezuela. OSCAR NOYA ALARC\u00d3N\" width=\"1216\" height=\"804\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microbiome researcher Mar\u00eda Gloria Dom\u00ednguez-Bello works with a team from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research to collect microbial samples from people living in remote places in Venezuela. OSCAR NOYA ALARC\u00d3N<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 17px; color: #000000;\">Blekhman, Knight, and others point to the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) consortium, which has <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/africans-begin-take-reins-research-their-own-genomes\">boosted genomic science in the region<\/a>, as an example of local groups improving sampling and data sharing. Adebamowo, who leads H3Africa\u2019s African Collaborative Center for Microbiome and Genomics Research (<a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/h3accme.com\/\">ACCME<\/a>), says the consortium has helped African researchers build infrastructure and expertise, and is now taking on microbial diversity in health and disease. At ACCME, Adebamowo and colleagues are working to find\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-020-76003-7\">biomarkers linking variations in the vaginal microbiome<\/a>\u00a0with persistent high-risk human papillomavirus infections in African women.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-size: 17px; color: #000000;\"><strong><em>This curated information was sourced from the <a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/studies-human-microbiome-ignored-developing-world-potentially-compromising-treatments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/studies-human-microbiome-ignored-developing-world-potentially-compromising-treatments<\/a> web page<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=&#8221;Read Full Article&#8221; style=&#8221;outline&#8221; color=&#8221;juicy-pink&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.science.org%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2Fstudies-human-microbiome-ignored-developing-world-potentially-compromising-treatments||target:%20_blank|&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1645436428327{margin-top: 36px !important;}&#8221;] Studies of human microbiome have ignored<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-11958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-182"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11961,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11958\/revisions\/11961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}