Social interaction, noise and antibiotic-mediated switches in the intestinal microbiota

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bucci, Vanni ^a   Bradde, Serena ^a   Biroli, Giulio ^b   Xavier, Joao B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ECOLOGY; PATHOGENS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

FUNCTIONAL GROUP MODEL; MICROBIOTAS; MULTISTABILITY; PRETREATMENT CONDITIONS; SIMPLE++; SMALL DISTURBANCES; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; STRONG PERTURBATIONS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYSTERESIS; INTESTINE FLORA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIOME; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBIONT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTESTINES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84861143904     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002497     Document Type: Article

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