Here, we describe our developing understanding of the far-reaching effects that the commensal flora have on mucosal and systemic immunity and their relevance to the effects of hygiene on human ...

Commensal oropharyngeal flora appeared to be a possible cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a number of patients admitted to the ICU, according to study results. “The current study ...

Because our mice were reared under specific pathogen-free (SPF) conditions, we tested the possible contributions of the non-pathogenic commensal flora to the triggering of a spontaneous CNS ...

One major group of commensal gut bacteria, the Bacteroidetes, avoids becoming collateral damage with just one gene, which encodes an enzyme that modifies lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in their cell ...

“The thing that we keep coming back to is that preserving the commensal flora in the microbiome is good for transplant patients.” Commensal flora are microbes that live in the body without causing ...

Sara Clasen is the 2023 winner of the NOSTER & Science Microbiome Prize for her work in illuminating how “silent flagellins” from commensal microbiota evade a host’s innate immunity.

The Human Microbiome Project is another database that allows interaction networks between host and commensal bacteria to be visualized in greater detail. Commensal bacteria inhabit their own ...