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ReviewPathogens and disease2016

Microbiota and pathogen 'pas de deux': setting up and breaking down barriers to intestinal infection.

Elizabeth S McKenney, Melissa M Kendall

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Review in Pathogens and disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Beyond the gut microbe: Rethinking infection, microbiome harmony, and the one-health continuum.World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Elizabeth S McKenneyDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Melissa M KendallDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA melissakendall@virginia.edu.

Funding

INFECTIOUS DISEASES TRAINING PROGRAMT32AI007046 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CHARLOTTESVILLE · PI Alison K Criss, William A Petri · 1985 to 2026
$15.3M
Ethanolamine Signaling in Virulence Gene Regulation and Host/Microbial InteractionsR01AI118732 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI KENDALL, MELISSA · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118732NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The gut microbiota plays essential roles in human health and disease. In this review, we focus on the role of the intestinal microbiota in promoting resistance to infection by bacterial pathogens as well as how pathogens overcome this barrier. We discuss how the resident microbiota restricts growth and colonization of invading pathogens by limiting availability of nutrients and through generation of a hostile environment. Additionally, we examine how microbiota-derived signaling molecules interfere with bacterial virulence. In turn, we discuss how pathogens exploit non-competitive metabolites to replicate in vivo as well as to precisely control virulence and cause disease. This bacterial two step of creating and overcoming challenges important in preventing and establishing infection highlights the complexities of elucidating interactions between the commensal bacteria and pathogens. Better understanding of microbiota-pathogen interplay will have significant implications for developing novel therapeutics to treat infectious diseases.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeHost-Pathogen InteractionsAnimalsDisease ResistanceDysbiosisGastroenteritisHumansIntestinal MucosaSignal TransductionVirulencecompetitionmetabolitesmicrobiotapathogenssignalingvirulence

Identifiers

PMID27252177
PMCPMC5985477

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