Foundations in Microbiology 9th Edition by Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess

Exercise 1

Critical thinking is the ability to reason and solve problems using facts and concepts. These question can be approached from a number of angles, and in most cases, they do not have a single correct answer.
a. Discuss the relationship between the vaginal residents and the colonization of the newborn.
b. Can you think of some medical consequences of this relationship?
c. How could normal microbial residents cause some infections to be more severe and other infections to be less severe?