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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Commensal bacteria help orchestrate immune response in lung Date: September 11, 2014 Source: American Society for Microbiology Summary: Signals from the bacteria that harmlessly -- and often ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

That, he found, reduced the ability of alveolar macrophages to kill K. pneumoniae, demonstrating that the commensal bacteria were somehow involved in this immune response.