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TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 181-182Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.02.004
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Neisseria meningitidis; propionic acid; symbiosis; anaerobes
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The pathogen Neisseria meningitidis causes disease amongst infants and adolescents/young adults. Here we argue that disease amongst adolescents is due largely to interaction between N. meningitidis and other members of the upper respiratory tract microbiota, through a metabolic interaction involving exchange of propionic acid.
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