細菌学および寄生虫学ジャーナル

概要

Host-Pathogen Interactions: Basic Concepts of Microbial Pathogenesis and Lexicon

Jeremy Walton

The majority of the wording used to characterize the host-microorganism connection has been being used for almost a century. From the get-go in this period, organisms were believed to be essential aggressors that administered the host-microbe connection, bringing about sickness. Afterward, new data about the traits of organisms and their hosts brought about the arrangement that the host-microorganism communication doesn't generally bring about illness. This acknowledgment, thus, prompted the acquaintance of terms with clarify states in which organisms exist inside hosts without causing obvious illness and why a few microorganisms just purpose sickness in specific hosts. Commensal, transporter state, and entrepreneur were terms advanced to represent microorganisms and conditions that were now and then connected with illness yet for which Koch's proposes couldn't be satisfied for some explanation. The majority of these terms were initially proposed to depict the conduct of specific microorganisms, as opposed to characterize a more broad host-organism relationship.