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Multiple ways in which the microbiota of the natural environment can modulate the immune system. This modulation may or may not involve colonization. There can be direct interaction with the immune system (pathway D) or indirect effects secondary to changes in the microbiota (pathways A, B, and C, fully explained in text).
