Between Pathogenicity and Commensalism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dobrindt, Ulrich (Editor), Hacker, Jörg H. (Editor), Svanborg, Catharina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, 358
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Vaccines.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Vaccine.

Microbes colonize nearly every biotic and abiotic niche on our planet. This also includes our human body, which is densely populated with microbes, the majority of which interact with us in a commensal, sometimes even mutualistic, relationship. Only a minority of our microbiota are pathogenic organi...