Microbiota host-microbe interactions

Multiple species of bacteria, protozoa, and fungi can inhabit a human body. Their biological relationship with the host can be described as symbiosis (mutualism), commensalism, and parasitism, while the medium modification can trigger a relationship change. For example, an infection or an invasive procedure can inflict the embedded microbes to shift the microbiotic balance some diseases and treatments promote immune variations embedding devices into the body often causes a tissue alteration. The nature of a device interaction with medium and microbiota is evidently crucial for both device functioning and microbiota behavior. 

Fig. 6.1 Drosophila-Acetobacter interacting model system to decipher the function of the gut microbiota. Genetic tools available in both microbe and host make it possible to assign the role of specific microbiome or host gene in a microbe-modulated animal phenotype...

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