Community composition drives metabolic competition and Staphylococcus aureus colonization resistance in synthetic nasal communities
Marcelo Navarro-Díaz, Kerrin Bertram, Laura Camus, Soyoung Ham, Largus Theodora Angenent, José Antonio Velázquez Gómez, Simon Heilbronner, Paolo Stincone, Johanna Rapp, Daniel Petras, Hannes Link
The paper constructs synthetic nasal communities to study how community composition influences metabolic competition and S. aureus colonization resistance.
bioRxiv · Mar 3, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology