Gut microbiota / Evidence-based microbiome knowledge (incl. AI chat)
Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

Defending the Attack of Pathogens by Neutrophils

Diet-induced obesity in mice impairs host defense against Klebsiella pneumonia in vivo and glucose transport and bactericidal functions in neutrophils in vitro
Mancuso et al. 2022 Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 322: L116–L128
Staphylococcus aureus strains lacking D-alanine modiﬁcations of teichoic acids are highly susceptible to human neutrophil killing and are virulence attenuated in mice
Collins et al. 2002 J Infect Dis 186: 214-219

5/29/2026