One of the many functions for normal microbiota is the ability to resist infection by pathogenic organisms, termed 'colonisation resistance'.
Bacterial blight resistance (Xcm): Refers to traits which allow the plant to resist infection after being inoculated with Xcm [ 52].
Verticillium wilt (VW): Refers to traits (percentage of plants infected or disease severity rating) which allow the plant to resist infection after being inoculated with VW fungus [ 37].
Furthermore, the emergence of atypical forms of BSE raises a new concern, i.e., that cell substrates resistant to infection with the original classic BSE agent (31 ) might not resist infection with newer strains of BSE agent (if new strains are implicated in atypical BSE).
If the environment is too disinfected, we lose the ability to resist infection.
"There are probably lots of different ways that people can resist infection," he says.
Twenty-two genes in the plant Arabidopsis, all connected to its ability to resist infection, were expressed only from the evening onward, peaking at dawn.
Twenty-two genes in the plant Arabidopsis, all connected to the plant's ability to resist infection, were expressed only from the evening onward, peaking at dawn.
The drop in the number of white blood corpuscles reduced the patient's capacity to resist infection, so open wounds were unusually slow in healing and many of the sick developed sore throats and mouths.
The fact that patients developed natural immunity to the virus suggested that if a person's immunity could be boosted prior to exposure it should be able to resist infection in the first place.
