Study led by NTU Singapore finds that microbes work as a network in causing lung infection

(Nanyang Technological University) Traditionally, an infection is thought to happen when microbes enter and multiply in the body, and its severity is associated with how prevalent the microbes are in the body. Now, an international research team led by NTU Singapore is proposing that microbes in the body exist as a network, and that an infection's severity could be a result of 'negative interactions' between these microbes - when the microbes compete rather than cooperate with one another.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news