Volume 26, No 8, Aug 2016

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 26 Issue 8, August 2016: 861-862

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Intimate gut interactions: helminths and the microbiota

Nicola L Harris¹

¹Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), station 19, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Correspondence: Nicola L Harris,(nicola.harris@epfl.ch)

Changing exposure to intestinal helminths, or alterations in our intestinal microbiome, have been independently proposed to underlie the increasing incidence of chronic inflammatory diseases including allergy, autoimmunity and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) observed in developed nations. A recent study in Science links these findings by showing that intestinal helminth infection can prevent the outgrowth of a common intestinal bacterium that causes IBD in genetically susceptible mice.

10.1038/cr.2016.72

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