Host demise as a beneficial function of indigenous microbiota in human hosts

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Blaser, Martin J ^a,b,c   Webb, Glenn F ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTEROIDES; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOST; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROFLORA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SENESCENCE; SHIGELLA; SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEATH; EVOLUTION; LONGEVITY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEATH; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MICROBIOTA; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84920969939     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02262-14     Document Type: Article

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