title: Acute Gastroenteritis Leaves a Lasting Impression.
abstract: Host immunity shapes intestinal microbiota composition, influencing health and disease. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe,Kamdar et al. (2016) demonstrate that an aberrant acute inflammatory response to Yersinia enterocolitica infection leads to long-lasting shifts in commensal communities and renders the host susceptible to chronic inflammation despite pathogen clearance.
authors.affiliation: Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA. Electronic address: abtm@mskcc.org.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Abt
mesh_terms: D005759:Gastroenteritis; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000276:immunology; D015009:Yersinia Infections / Q000276:immunology*