Maintenance of tolerance and restoration of host homeostasis after insults or exposure to pathogens relies on complex and coordinated innate and adaptive responses. To this end, specialized ...

The interaction of probiotic surface molecules with host pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and associated co-receptors plays a key part in the observed health benefits of probiotic bacteria.

The human body interacts with the outside world through its sense organs, of which the largest is the skin. The skin is home to a world of microbes, living mostly as commensals (microbes with neutral ...

Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis, while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse ...

An examination of fecal samples from South African baboons of the species Papio cynocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) Erxleben, 1777, revealed the presence of one ciliate, Balantidium coli (46%) and six ...