Comment on

• Infection in organ-transplant recipients.

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• Infections and solid organ transplant rejection: a cause-and-effect relationship?

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• Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is an anti-inflammatory commensal bacterium identified by gut microbiota analysis of Crohn disease patients.

  Sokol H, Pigneur B, Watterlot L, Lakhdari O, Bermúdez-Humarán LG, Gratadoux JJ, Blugeon S, Bridonneau C, Furet JP, Corthier G, Grangette C, Vasquez N, Pochart P, Trugnan G, Thomas G, Blottière HM, Doré J, Marteau P, Seksik P, Langella P. Sokol H, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Oct 28;105(43):16731-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804812105. Epub 2008 Oct 20. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008. PMID: 18936492 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
• A new vision of immunity: homeostasis of the superorganism.

  Eberl G. Eberl G. Mucosal Immunol. 2010 Sep;3(5):450-60. doi: 10.1038/mi.2010.20. Epub 2010 May 5. Mucosal Immunol. 2010. PMID: 20445502 Review.
• Intestinal bacterial colonization induces mutualistic regulatory T cell responses.

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• Peripheral education of the immune system by colonic commensal microbiota.

  Lathrop SK, Bloom SM, Rao SM, Nutsch K, Lio CW, Santacruz N, Peterson DA, Stappenbeck TS, Hsieh CS. Lathrop SK, et al. Nature. 2011 Sep 21;478(7368):250-4. doi: 10.1038/nature10434. Nature. 2011. PMID: 21937990 Free PMC article.
• Extrathymically generated regulatory T cells control mucosal TH2 inflammation.

  Josefowicz SZ, Niec RE, Kim HY, Treuting P, Chinen T, Zheng Y, Umetsu DT, Rudensky AY. Josefowicz SZ, et al. Nature. 2012 Feb 8;482(7385):395-9. doi: 10.1038/nature10772. Nature. 2012. PMID: 22318520 Free PMC article.
• Regulation of intestinal inflammation by microbiota following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

  Jenq RR, Ubeda C, Taur Y, Menezes CC, Khanin R, Dudakov JA, Liu C, West ML, Singer NV, Equinda MJ, Gobourne A, Lipuma L, Young LF, Smith OM, Ghosh A, Hanash AM, Goldberg JD, Aoyama K, Blazar BR, Pamer EG, van den Brink MR. Jenq RR, et al. J Exp Med. 2012 May 7;209(5):903-11. doi: 10.1084/jem.20112408. Epub 2012 Apr 30. J Exp Med. 2012. PMID: 22547653 Free PMC article.
• Extrathymic generation of regulatory T cells in placental mammals mitigates maternal-fetal conflict.

  Samstein RM, Josefowicz SZ, Arvey A, Treuting PM, Rudensky AY. Samstein RM, et al. Cell. 2012 Jul 6;150(1):29-38. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.031. Cell. 2012. PMID: 22770213 Free PMC article.
• Diversity, stability and resilience of the human gut microbiota.

  Lozupone CA, Stombaugh JI, Gordon JI, Jansson JK, Knight R. Lozupone CA, et al. Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):220-30. doi: 10.1038/nature11550. Nature. 2012. PMID: 22972295 Free PMC article. Review.
• Genomic approaches to studying the human microbiota.

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