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Type 2 immunity-dependent reduction of segmented filamentous bacteria in mice infected with the helminthic parasite Nippostrongylus brasiliensis

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2015

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W. Florian Fricke, Yang Song, Anjiang Wang, Allen Smith, Viktoriya Grinchuk, Chenlin Pei, Bing Ma, Nonghua Lu, Joseph F. Urban, Terez Shea‐Donohue,
Microbiome

Abstract

Our data show that parasite infection acts through host type 2 immunity to reduce intestinal SFB and expression of IL-17, providing an example of a microbiota-dependent immune modulation by parasites.

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