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Sculpting of the colonizing microbiota. Our central tenet is that the host actively shapes the composition of its colonizing microbiota. The mechanisms include non-immune factors, as well as innate and adaptive immune factors. Together, these host factors combine to create a discriminating environment, provide selective nutrients, and generate specific antimicrobial factors
