Baby’s First Bacteria: Discriminating Colonizing Commensals from Pathogens
December 11, 2019
Yue Xing, Shruti Naik
Cell Host and Microbe
At birth, microbes rapidly colonize our epithelial surfaces. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Leech et al. (2019) uncover how the neonatal immune system discriminates between a colonizing commensal and pathogen to selectively generate tolerance to commensal species.