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Contaminant, coloniser or invader? 1. Understanding host‐bacteria interactions
Author(s) -
Normand Elizabeth
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inpract.29.1.22
Subject(s) - bacteriology , host (biology) , biology , sampling (signal processing) , bacteria , host specificity , microbiology and biotechnology , zoology , ecology , computer science , genetics , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
IN veterinary practice, bacteria are a concern because they may cause or complicate disease in a host animal or group of animals. It can be frustrating when samples for bacterial culture fail to yield useful results. Even when isolates are recovered, their clinical significance can be uncertain. This article reviews host‐bacteria interactions, a knowledge of which is fundamental to clinical bacteriology, from sampling to interpretation of laboratory results. It sets the scene for a companion article, published on pages 28 to 33 of this issue, which provides an overview of clinical bacteriology, concentrating on how to maximise diagnostic yield from clinical samples.