Lactose drives Enterococcus expansion to promote graft-versus-host disease
We report lactose as a common nutrient that drives expansion of a commensal bacterium that exacerbates an intestinal and systemic inflammatory disease.
Source: ScienceNOW - Category: Science Authors: Stein-Thoeringer, C. K., Nichols, K. B., Lazrak, A., Docampo, M. D., Slingerland, A. E., Slingerland, J. B., Clurman, A. G., Armijo, G., Gomes, A. L. C., Shono, Y., Staffas, A., Burgos da Silva, M., Devlin, S. M., Markey, K. A., Bajic, D., Pinedo, R., Tsa Tags: Immunology, Medicine, Diseases reports Source Type: news
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