Considering humans as habitat reveals evidence of successional disease ecology among human pathogens.

The realization that ecological principles play an important role in infectious disease dynamics has led to a renaissance in epidemiological theory. Ideas from ecological succession theory have begun to inform an understanding of the relationship between the individual microbiome and health but have...

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Main Authors: Nina H Fefferman, Charles A Price, Oliver C Stringham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-09-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001770