Fig. 4 | Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

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From: A systematic framework for understanding the microbiome in human health and disease: from basic principles to clinical translation

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Original host (conventional host model) and Meta-host (ecological host model). The meta-host is used to describe conventional host that exhibit marked differences in colonization, susceptibility and pathogenicity to microorganisms following microbial accession. This phenomenon is the result of the dynamic integration of the adaptive genome with the innate genome and corresponds to the human ecological perspective

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