The Human Microbiome of Local Body Sites and Their Unique Biology

Kjersti Aagaard; Ruth Ann Luna; James Versalovic

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-48255-4.00002-3

The Human Microbiome of Local Body Sites and Their Unique Biology

Kjersti Aagaard, Ruth Ann Luna, James Versalovic

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Abstract

The human microbiome contains body site-specific communities of microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses) that affect human health and predisposition to disease. Infectious diseases and microbial components of chronic diseases are modulated by differences in microbial composition and function in different human individuals. This chapter examines the topic of the human microbiome as it relates to the practice of infectious diseases. The chapter includes the general conceptual framework of the human microbiome and considerations specific to individual anatomic sites and organs.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 9th Edition
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1-2
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	12-21.e3
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9780323482554
ISBN (Print)	9780323775564
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-48255-4.00002-3
State	Published - Jan 1 2019

Keywords

beneficial microbes
commensalism
dysbiosis
metagenome
microbial ecology
microbiome
microbiota
mutualism
probiotic
symbiosis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine

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