Mary J Starry

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These illnesses are caused by communities of microbes, which have shifted into configurations that harm their hosts. None is a pathogen in its own right; instead, the entire community has shifted to a pathogenic state. There’s a word for such a state: dysbiosis.
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by Ed Yong
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