Dictionary of Environmental Health
The term applied to describe those micro-organisms that live either in the body (e.g.
in the intestinal or respiratory tract) or on the skin of an individual or animal but which do no harm as a result of their presence. A commensal relationship is a type of SYMBIOTIC relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not adversely affected.
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