Microbial Interactions & Microbial Ecology

An organism's interactions with its environment are fundamental to the survival of that organism and the functioning of the ecosystem as a whole. Microbial interaction is the inter- and intra-relationships between various microorganisms that include both positive and negative interactions. The host-microbe interaction is defined as how microbes sustain themselves within host organisms on a molecular, infection, cellular, organismal or population level. Interactions between symbiotic or pathogenic microbes and the hosts they colonize are central to both health and disease.