Baby’s First Bacteria: Discriminating Colonizing Commensals from Pathogens

Anaerobic bacteria in cystic fibrosis: pathogens or harmless commensals?

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Bacteria colonizing paper machines

Blurred Lines: Pathogens, Commensals, and the Healthy Gut

Detailed studies of the chickenmicrobiome have emerged in recent years, largely due to the impact of next-generation sequencing (NGS). We increasingly understand how the microbiome is important in health, in development of the gut and the immune system, and in maintenance of homeostasis. Manipulation of the microbiota directly through probiotics or antimicrobials or indirectly through feed and ...

Vaccination against colonizing bacteria with multiple serotypes.

Conjugate vaccines protect vaccinated individuals against both disease from and nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae. Protection is specific to the capsular serotype(s) included in the vaccine. This specificity has raised concern that vaccination against particular ("targeted") serotypes may cause an increase in carriage of (and diseases attributable to...

Colonizing opportunistic pathogens (COPs): The beasts in all of us

1 Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington DC, United States of America, 2 Division of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, 3 Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, 4 Department of Biological Sciences, Nort...