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Commensal
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commensal [kə′men·səl]
(ecology)
An organism living in a state of commensalism.
Commensal 

an organism that lives with an organism of a different species (permanently or temporarily); the commensal benefits from the association and does not injure the other organism. This association is called commensalism.
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Dogs were especially suspected because they live commensally with both pigs and humans.
Nipah virus infection in dogs, Malaysia, 1999 by Mills, James N.; Alim, Asiah N.M.; Bunning, Michel L.; Lee, Ong Bee; Wagoner, Kent D.; Amman, Brian / Emerging Infectious Diseases
They are found commensally in the body flora, where they cause sinusitis, pneumonia, intra-abdominal infection, and genitourinary infection in humans, as well as when in conjunction with facultative anaerobic bacteria (ie, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus mirabilis, and Escherichia coli).
Treatment of ankylosing spondylitis with moxifloxacin by Ogrendik, Mesut / Southern Medical Journal
Temple monkeys are free-ranging in parks and religious sites in South and Southeast Asia and have lived commensally with humans for centuries at these sites, some of which have become international tourist destinations.
Diverse contexts of zoonotic transmission of simian foamy viruses in ... by Jones-Engel, Lisa; May, Cynthia C.; Engel, Gregory A.; Steinkraus, Katherine A.; Schillaci, Michael / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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