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Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

Gut microbiota & Infection diseases / Infections / Bacterial infection

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The development of both the gut microbiota and the immune system creates a defense against infections throughout the body
Belkaid & Hand 2014 Cell 157: 121-141
Belkaid & Harrison 2017
Brown & Clarke 2017 Immunology 150: 1-6

During gastrointestinal infections, tolerance to commensals can be lost and microbiota-specific T cells become activated.
Hand et al. 2012

see also:
Gut microbiota & Immunity
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References (Sources)

Acute gastrointestinal infection induces long-lived microbiota-specific T cell responses.
Hand et al. 2012
Biﬁdobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate
Fukuda et al. 2011 Nature 469: 543-547
Complete genome sequence of USA300, an epidemic clone of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Diep et al. 2006 Lancet 367: 731-739
Review
Homeostatic Immunity and the Microbiota
Belkaid & Harrison 2017
Infection leaves a genetic and functional mark on the gut population of a commensal bacterium
Tawk et al. 2023 Cell Host & Microbe 31(5): 811-826
Microbial programming of systemic innate immunity and resistance to infection
Clarke 2014 PLoS Pathog 10: e1004506
Role of the microbiota in immunity and inﬂammation
Belkaid & Hand 2014 Cell 157: 121-141