Keystone Gut Microbiota Species Provide Colonization Resistance to Invading Bacteria
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Gut microbiota provides resistance to bacterial invasion (1), which can be lost under different perturbations, such as antibiotic treatment. The keystone microbiota member Klebsiella michiganensis was shown to be sufficient to provide colonization resistance against Enterobacteriaceae species, such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella (2). The higher nutrient consumption capacity of K. michiganensis enables it to efficiently conquer more nutrient niches, outcompeting E. coli from the gut (3).
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References
Oliveira et. al. (2020) Klebsiella michiganensis transmission enhances resistance to Enterobacteriaceae gut invasion by nutrition competition. Nature Microbiology . https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0658-4
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