A variety of rapid diagnostic tests and selective media has been developed and used with great success in defining intra- and inter-individual colonisation and infection rates.
In an individual perspective, colonisation with F. necrophorum was transient over time.
Ongoing transmission of ST80 in specific areas of the community may be explained by carriership of individuals passing colonisation and infection back and forth.
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During colonisation, individuals are exposed to stress attributable to new environmental conditions and population regimes.
Among non-diabetic individuals, C. albicans colonisation has been reported to be higher in dentate females compared to males [ 6].
There is no doubt that routine prophylactic use of antibiotics can cause colonisation of individual patients with resistant organisms, but the clinical relevance of this is unclear.
We observe that the natural history of S. flexneri is characterised by long term (in some cases over 100 years) colonisation of individual countries demonstrating that it is far older, and far more diverse than S. sonnei.
We propose that, in response to the selective pressures associated with the host immune system, expression of the LktA protein is maintained at a baseline level during nasopharyngeal colonisation within individual hosts and asymptomatic nose-to-nose transmission between hosts, while expression is above the baseline level during pulmonary infection.
Our results suggest that there is a high incidence of MRSA infection among individuals in prisons and military settings, but surveys that quantify the prevalence of MRSA colonisation among individuals living within these specialised settings are needed.
This represents the first mention of individuals with G. destructans colonisation outside of the hibernation period and raises questions about the role of these individuals in the persistence of the fungus in bat populations.
