Dysbiosis and the immune system

Nature Reviews Immunology 17, 219 (2017). doi:10.1038/nri.2017.7 Authors: Maayan Levy, Aleksandra A. Kolodziejczyk, Christoph A. Thaiss & Eran Elinav Throughout the past century, we have seen the emergence of a large number of multifactorial diseases, including inflammatory, autoimmune, metabolic, neoplastic and neurodegenerative diseases, many of which have been recently associated with intestinal dysbiosis — that is, compositional and functional alterations of the gut microbiome.
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