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SCIENCE
Volume 328, Issue 5984, Pages 1391-1394Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187703
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- UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Wellcome Trust [083620Z]
- University of Manchester
- UK Medical Research Council [G0601205]
- MRC [G0601205] Funding Source: UKRI
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The inhabitants of the mammalian gut are not always relatively benign commensal bacteria but may also include larger and more parasitic organisms, such as worms and protozoa. At some level, all these organisms are capable of interacting with each other. We found that successful establishment of the chronically infecting parasitic nematode Trichuris muris in the large intestine of mice is dependent on microflora and coincident with modulation of the host immune response. By reducing the number of bacteria in the host animal, we significantly reduced the number of hatched T. muris eggs. Critical interactions between bacteria (microflora) and parasites (macrofauna) introduced a new dynamic to the intestinal niche, which has fundamental implications for our current concepts of intestinal homeostasis and regulation of immunity.
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