Microbiota and the immune system, an amazing mutualism forged by co-evolution

Seminars in Immunology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 321-322

  Sansonetti, Philippe J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b Collège de France ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ASTHMA; ATOPY; COEVOLUTION; EDITORIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE FLORA; LAMINA PROPRIA; LYMPHOCYTE; MICROFLORA; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PANETH CELL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SKIN FLORA; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICROBIOTA; SKIN; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84888857020     PISSN: 10445323     EISSN: 10963618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2013.10.003     Document Type: Editorial

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