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The degree of microbiome complexity influences the epithelial response to infection

BACKGROUND: The human microflora is known to be extremely complex, yet most pathogenesis research is conducted in mono-species models of infection. Consequently, it remains unclear whether the level of complexity of a host's indigenous flora can affect the virulence potential of pathogenic spec...

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Autores principales: Mans, Jeffrey J, von Lackum, Kate, Dorsey, Cassandra, Willis, Shaun, Wallet, Shannon M, Baker, Henry V, Lamont, Richard J, Handfield, Martin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2736203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19689803
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-380