A Commencement for Eye Commensals

Publication date: 18 July 2017
Source:Immunity, Volume 47, Issue 1
Author(s): Nancy J. Reyes, Daniel R. Saban
"Paucibacterial" levels of the normal eye surface have left immunologists wondering whether a true microbiome exists there. In this issue of Immunity, St. Leger et al. (2017) address this head-on, discovering a naturally existing commensal in mice that induces γδT cell-mediated protection from opportunistic infection.

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"Paucibacterial" levels of the normal eye surface have left immunologists wondering whether a true microbiome exists there. St. Leger et al. address this head-on, discovering a naturally existing commensal in mice that induces γδT cell-mediated protection from opportunistic infection.


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