Fig. 1
From: Challenges in the construction of knowledge bases for human microbiome-disease associations
The rate of publications linking bacteria to human disease in PubMed. The chart displays the yearly count of PubMed abstracts matching human disease with microbes using the query (human AND disease) AND (microbiome OR microbiology OR microbes OR bacteria OR microbiota OR fungi OR virus). While the rise in publications began several decades ago, the last decade has featured a rapid increase in the number of publications spurred on by reductions in sequencing technologies and increased interest in the microbiome