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The Gut Microbiota Protects Bees from Invasion by a Bacterial Pathogen

Commensal microbes in animal guts often help to exclude bacterial pathogens. In honey bees, perturbing or depleting the gut microbiota increases host mortality rates upon challenge with the opportunistic pathogen Serratia marcescens, suggesting antagonism between S. marcescens and one or more member...

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Autores principales: Steele, Margaret I., Motta, Erick V. S., Gattu, Tejashwini, Martinez, Daniel, Moran, Nancy A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8557934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34523998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/Spectrum.00394-21