PMID- 26029695 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20150601 LR - 20201001 IS - 2296-858X (Print) IS - 2296-858X (Electronic) IS - 2296-858X (Linking) VI - 2 DP - 2015 TI - With a Little Help from my Enteric Microbial Friends. PG - 30 LID - 10.3389/fmed.2015.00030 [doi] LID - 30 AB - Although the disciplines of bacteriology and virology frequently come together in the setting of a diagnostic medical microbiology laboratory, the two scientific fields are usually miles apart. The microbiologists basically form two non-overlapping groups of scientists, the bacteriologists and virologists, which go to separate meetings and do not easily intermingle. Some recent research findings about elegant virus-bacterium interactions may change this situation. Obviously, interactions between these two microbes can occur only when they colocalize, which most likely occurs in the gut/intestines where 10(14) commensal bacteria reside (the microbiota). We review findings on the following enteric microbial tandems: norovirus - Enterobacter cloacae, mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) - bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS), poliovirus and reovirus - intestinal bacteria. The close bacterium-virus interplay may also present options to develop unique therapeutic strategies for those infected, and to prevent further virus spread, and thus minimize the risk for the community. FAU - Berkhout, Ben AU - Berkhout B AD - Laboratory of Experimental Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam (CINIMA), Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , Netherlands. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20150511 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Med (Lausanne) JT - Frontiers in medicine JID - 101648047 PMC - PMC4426759 OTO - NOTNLM OT - LPS OT - microbiology OT - mouse mammary tumour virus OT - norovirus OT - poliovirus OT - reovirus EDAT- 2015/06/02 06:00 MHDA- 2015/06/02 06:01 PMCR- 2015/05/11 CRDT- 2015/06/02 06:00 PHST- 2015/02/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/04/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/06/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/06/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/06/02 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2015/05/11 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fmed.2015.00030 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Med (Lausanne). 2015 May 11;2:30. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2015.00030. eCollection 2015.