Mechanisms controlling pathogen colonization of the gut

Human gut microbes associated with obesity

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Gut microbiota in health and disease

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The Effect of Diet on the Human Gut Microbiome: A Metagenomic Analysis in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice

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A microbial symbiosis factor prevents intestinal inflammatory disease

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Inducible Foxp3 + regulatory T-cell development by a commensal bacterium of the intestinal microbiota

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An ecological and evolutionary perspective on human–microbe mutualism and disease

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High prevalence of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli associated with ileal mucosa in Crohn’s disease

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Symbiotic bacteria direct expression of an intestinal bactericidal lectin

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Glycan foraging in vivo by an intestine-adapted bacterial symbiont

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Transfer of carbohydrate-active enzymes from marine bacteria to Japanese gut microbiota

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Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium exploits inflammation to compete with the intestinal microbiota

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A Catalog of Reference Genomes from the Human Microbiome

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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci exploit antibiotic-induced innate immune deficits

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Lipocalin-2 Resistance Confers an Advantage to Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium for Growth and Survival in the Inflamed Intestine

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Colonization resistance

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Comparison of Carbon Nutrition for Pathogenic and Commensal Escherichia coli Strains in the Mouse Intestine

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Antibiotic Treatment of Clostridium difficile Carrier Mice Triggers a Supershedder State, Spore-Mediated Transmission, and Severe Disease in Immunocompromised Hosts

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Role of the gut microbiota in immunity and inflammatory disease

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Transkingdom Control of Microbiota Diurnal Oscillations Promotes Metabolic Homeostasis

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Macronutrient metabolism by the human gut microbiome: major fermentation by-products and their impact on host health

Oliphant, K., & Allen-Vercoe, E. (2019) · Microbiome · doi:10.1186/s40168-019-0704-8 · Cited by 1,327

Antibiotic-induced shifts in the mouse gut microbiome and metabolome increase susceptibility to Clostridium difficile infection

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The gut-brain axis: how microbiota and host inflammasome influence brain physiology and pathology

Rutsch, A., Kantsjö, J. B., & Ronchi, F. (2020) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2020.604179 · Cited by 821