Nature Communications (Apr 2019)
The parasitic worm product ES-62 normalises the gut microbiota bone marrow axis in inflammatory arthritis
Abstract
Gastrointestinal infection with parasitic helminths can protect against mucosal diseases via impacting on the microbiome. Here the authors show that ES-62, a product secreted by a tissue-resident helminth modulates the host gut microbiome to protect against inflammatory arthritis in a mouse model.