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Dobrindt, Ulrich, Jörg H. Hacker, and Catharina Svanborg, eds. Between Pathogenicity and Commensalism. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36560-7.

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Vahid, Aaron C. Scallop sponge relationship: Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism. Bellingham, WA: Huxley College of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University, 1999.

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Primatologists, American Society of, ed. Commensalism and conflict: The human-primate interface. Norman, Okla: American Society of Primatologists, 2005.

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Bozhkov, Dimo. Simbiozata pri zhivotnite. Sofii͡a︡: Izd-vo na Bŭlgarskata akademii͡a︡ na naukite, 1993.

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Pettibone, Marian H. Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.

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Gotto, R. V. Commensal and parasitic copepods associated with marine invertebrates (and whales): Keys and notes for the identification of the species. Oegstgeest, the Netherlands: Published for the Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association by Universal Book Services/Dr. W. Backhuys, 1993.

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Lorenzi, Nicola. Memorie di commensali disperati. Ancona: Italic, 2019.

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Commensality and ceremonial meals in the Neo-Assyrian period. Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2015.

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Hurst, Christon J., ed. The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28170-4.

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Boutaud, Jean-Jacques. Le sens gourmand: De la commensalité, du goût, des aliments. Paris: Jean-Paul Rocher, 2005.

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Olschewski, Luisa Elvira Belaunde. Gender, commensality and community among the Airo-Pai of west Amazonia. London: London school of economics, 1992.

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Anigbo, Osmund A. C. Commensality and human relationship among the Igbo: An ethnographic study of Ibagwa Aka, Igboeze L.G.A. Anambra State, Nigeria. Nsukka: University of Nigeria Press, 1987.

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Antonioni, John Phillip. Comparative examination of Cambarus robustus populations with respect to branchiobdellidan commensals (Annelida:Clitellata) in an acidified lake and circumneutral stream in northern Ontario. Sudbury, Ont: Laurentian University, Department of Biology, 1994.

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Martin, Aurell, Dumoulin Olivier, Thelamon Françoise, Université de Rouen. Groupe de recherche d'histoire de Haute-Normandie, and Association de recherche sur la sociabilité (Rouen, France)., eds. La Sociabilité à table: Commensalité et convivialité à travers les âges : actes du Colloque de Rouen, avec la participation de Jacques Le Goff, 14-17 novembre 1990. Rouen (France): Publications de l'Université de Rouen, 1992.

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Ersilia, Francesca, ed. Il principe e i saggi: Potere e giustizia nel Medioevo islamico : traduzione di L'epistola dei compagni di Ibn al-Muqaffa', Le qualità dei commensali del re tratto dal Libro della corona attribuito ad al-Gahiz. Monza (Milano): Polimetrica, 2005.

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Dobrindt, Ulrich, Jörg H. Hacker, and Catharina Svanborg. Between Pathogenicity and Commensalism. Springer, 2015.

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Dobrindt, Ulrich, Jörg H. Hacker, and Catharina Svanborg. Between Pathogenicity and Commensalism. Springer London, Limited, 2014.

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Between Pathogenicity And Commensalism. Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH &, 2013.

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O'Connor, T. P. Animals As Neighbors: The Past and Present of Commensal Animals. Michigan State University Press, 2013.

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Commensality. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474245326.

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Bittleston, Leonora S. Commensals of Nepenthes pitchers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0023.

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Carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plants contain aquatic ecosystems within each fluid-filled pitcher. Communities of arthropods and microbes colonize pitcher pools, and some organisms are endemic to the pitcher habitat. Flies and mites are the most apparent colonizers, and together with numerous protists, fungi, and bacteria, they form a food web of predators, decomposers, and primary producers. Bacterial diversity and composition are correlated strongly with fluid pH. Closely related organisms co-occur within pitchers, suggesting that competition is not the primary structuring force of pitcher communities. Pitchers are ephemeral habitats when compared with surrounding soil, and the former communities have fewer organisms and are less predictable than the latter. It is still unknown to what extent pitcher plants and their inhabitants influence one another’s fitness.

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Whitley, James. Citizenship and Commensality in Archaic Crete. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817192.003.0009.

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One of the key questions in understanding citizenship is understanding how cohorts of citizens were formed. There is much to suggest that in Crete this role was performed by the andreion or ‘men’s club’. This chapter re-examines this peculiar Cretan institution in the light of Josine Blok’s suggestion that we can view archaic political communities as ‘covenants between gods and men’. It provides an overview of the archaeological, epigraphic, and (much later) textual evidence for this institution and examines whether each political community had one andreion or several andreia. It concludes by arguing for the key role played by institutionalized commensality in the creation of the citizen body in Crete.

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Kerner, Susanne, Cynthia Chou, and Morten Warmind. Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015.

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Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014.

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Hurst, Christon J. Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic. Springer London, Limited, 2016.

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Hurst, Christon J. Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic. Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.

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Hurst, Christon J. The Rasputin Effect: When Commensals and Symbionts Become Parasitic. Springer, 2016.

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The Gopher Tortoise and Commensals (Tortoises of ther World, Volume 12). Green Nature Books, 2000.

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Kirchman, David L. Symbioses and microbes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789406.003.0014.

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The book ends with a chapter devoted to discussing interactions between microbes and higher plants and animals. Symbiosis is sometimes used to describe all interactions, even negative ones, between organisms in persistent, close contact. This chapter focuses on interactions that benefit both partners (mutualism), or one partner while being neutral to the other (commensalism). Microbes are essential to the health and ecology of vertebrates, including Homo sapiens. Microbial cells outnumber human cells on our bodies, aiding in digestion and warding off pathogens. In consortia similar to the anaerobic food chain of anoxic sediments, microbes are essential in the digestion of plant material by deer, cattle, and sheep. Different types of microbes form symbiotic relationships with insects and help to explain their huge success in the biosphere. Protozoa are crucial for wood-boring insects, symbiotic bacteria in the genus Buchnera provide sugars to host aphids while obtaining essential amino acids in exchange, and fungi thrive in subterranean gardens before being harvested for food by ants. Symbiotic dinoflagellates directly provide organic material to support coral growth in exchange for ammonium and other nutrients. Corals are now threatened worldwide by rising oceanic temperatures, decreasing pH, and other human-caused environmental changes. At hydrothermal vents in some deep oceans, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria fuel an entire ecosystem and endosymbiotic bacteria support the growth of giant tube worms. Higher plants also have many symbiotic relationships with bacteria and fungi. Symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in legumes and other plants fix more nitrogen than free-living bacteria. Fungi associated with plant roots (“mycorrhizal”) are even more common and potentially provide plants with phosphorus as well as nitrogen. Symbiotic microbes can provide other services to their hosts, such as producing bioluminescence, needed for camouflage against predators. In the case of the bobtail squid, bioluminescence is only turned on when populations of the symbiotic bacteria reach critical levels, determined by a quorum sensing mechanism.

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Shadwell, Charles Lancelot, and Oriel College (University Of Oxford). Registrum Orielense: The Commensales, Commoners and Batellers Admitted During the Years 1701-1900. Arkose Press, 2015.

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Flammang, Janet A. Conclusion. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040290.003.0008.

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This book concludes with a discussion of some important ethical, practical, and theoretical issues that arise from table talk and democracy. In terms of ethics, it tackles a variety of questions, such as who has the responsibility to learn, teach, and conduct the art of conversation; what rules should be set about who gets to talk, and how, at the table; who gets included and who gets excluded in our commensality; and how to handle conflict and difficult conversations. From a practical standpoint, it considers how we learn, teach, and practice the art of conversation. Finally, the book examines how it contributes to theories about democracy, resilience, and reducing prejudice.

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Flammang, Janet A. Tables Away from Home. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040290.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on table conversations that take place outside the home. More specifically, it considers in-depth cases of how our civic selves are developed through conversations in a variety of settings such as friends' homes, schools, camps, colleges, religious institutions, firehouses, addiction-recovery programs, gang prevention programs, and the military. After discussing commensality and conversation found at school tables, the chapter examines table talk that transpires at camp tables, college tables, religious tables, male tables, homies dinners, military meals, and at meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and other programs for recovering addicts. It shows that people gathered at tables away from home emulate domestic tables by re-creating “family” or “comfort” or “safety,” all of which help an individual find his/her voice in conversations.

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Afzali, Behdad, and Claudia Kemper. Immunity. Edited by David J. Goldsmith. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0128.

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Immunological health relies on a balance between immune responsiveness to foreign pathogens and tolerance to self-components, commensals, food-derived components, and semi-allogeneic fetal antigens. Disruptions of this balance are hallmarks of immunodeficiency diseases, autoimmune diseases, and pregnancy failure. Patients with chronic kidney disease are immunologically unique in demonstrating features of both chronic inflammation and acquired immunodeficiency—predisposing these individuals to the two commonest causes of death, namely cardiovascular disease and sepsis. Defects and abnormalities in almost all components of the immune system can be observed, although it is difficult to say whether the observations denote mechanism or effect. This chapter reviews, briefly, measurable immune system abnormalities in chronic kidney disease and some of the potential underlying mechanisms.

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Sirová, Dagmara, Jiří Bárta, Jakub Borovec, and Jaroslav Vrba. The Utricularia-associated microbiome: composition, function, and ecology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0025.

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This chapter reviews current advances regarding plant–microbe interactions in aquatic Utricularia. New findings on the composition and function of trap commensals, based mainly on the advances in molecular methods, are presented in the context of the ecological role of Utricularia-associated microorganisms. Bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa colonize the Utricularia trap lumen and form diverse, interactive communities. The involvement of these microbial food webs in the regeneration of nutrients from complex organic matter is explained and their potential contribution to the nutrient acquisition in aquatic Utricularia is discussed. The Utricularia–commensal system is suggested to be a suitable model system for studying plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions and related ecological questions.

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Finger, Lareta Halteman. An investigation of communal meals in Acts 2:42-47 and 6:1-6: A socio-historical and gender analysis of commensality in the Jerusalem church. 1997.

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Linton, Chris, and Susan Howell. Other yeasts. Edited by Christopher C. Kibbler, Richard Barton, Neil A. R. Gow, Susan Howell, Donna M. MacCallum, and Rohini J. Manuel. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198755388.003.0013.

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The yeasts described in this chapter are, in general, rare causes of serious human infection. Many are commonly found in the environment or as human commensals. The chapter provides a very brief summary of the following six yeast genera: Malassezia, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, Saprochaete, Sporobolomyces, and Trichosporon. Current taxonomy and significant species are also discussed although many fungal taxonomic groups are being re-evaluated in the light of DNA sequencing data, resulting in the renaming of some species and the regrouping of others. Pathogenicity, epidemiology, and clinical aspects are included, and treatment options are discussed. However, as infections caused by these yeasts are uncommon, there is sometimes a lack of supporting data. Culture and identification methods are also summarized, details of which will be presented in other chapters

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Ellison, Aaron M., and Lubomír Adamec. The future of research with carnivorous plants. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0029.

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The material presented in the chapters of Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution together provide a suite of common themes that could provide a framework for increasing progress in understanding carnivorous plants. All speciose genera would benefit from more robust, intra-generic classifications in a phylogenetic framework that uses a unified species concept. As more genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic data accrue, new insights will emerge regarding trap biochemistry and regulation; interactions with commensals; and the importance of intraspecific variability on which natural selection works. Continued elaboration of field experiments will provide new insights into basic physiology; population biology; plant-animal and plant-microbe relationships; and evolutionary dynamics, all of which will aid conservation efforts and contribute to discussions of assisted migration as the climate continues to change.

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Tierney, R. Kenji, and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. Anthropology of Food. Edited by Jeffrey M. Pilcher. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.013.0007.

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Food is an important indicator of social differentiation, which defines the boundaries between social groups, and social hierarchy, which entails class, status, and power inequality. Because food is a basic element of material culture and social life, it has occupied a central place in the discipline of anthropology from its earliest days. Anthropologists view food and foodways as tools with which to understand individual cultures and societies, especially when they are situated in the context of global and historical flows and connections. Ethnography, the methodology used by anthropologists and by some other social scientists, relies on a holistic and empathetic approach based on lived experience among the people being studied. Anthropologists have long been interested in commensality as both a source and an expression of group identities. Another way to probe sociality is to analyze gifts and manners.

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Thelamon. La Sociabilité à table: Commensalité et convivialité à travers les âges : Actes du Colloque de Rouen, avec la participation de Jacques Le Goff, 14-17 novembre 1990. Presses Universitaires de Rouen / Publications de, 1995.

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Auffarth, Christoph. Gift and Sacrifice. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.39.

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This chapter discusses sacrifice and gift exchange as perspectives on ritual relations between gods and humans. It begins by noting the role of Protestant theology in emphasizing the centrality of sacrifice to religion and the contributions of Victorian evolutionist scholars as well as twentieth-century thinkers to the conceptualization of sacrifice. Problems with these analyses—and with interpretations of mythic narratives of sacrifice more generally—suggest the value of a comprehensive religio-historical analysis of sacrifice. This suggests the value of considering sacrifice within a more general framework: as communicative gift in a gift economy. Sacrificial ritual establishes ritual commensality, thus constituting a performance of social order and power. Anthropological concepts and typologies of gifting facilitate comparing and contrasting exchange relations between humans with those between humans and gods. More generally, it allows us to characterize the roles of exchange relations in society, thus adding to our understanding of religion’s social roles.

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Fisher, Nick. Athletics and Citizenship. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817192.003.0008.

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A defining feature of archaic Greece was the explosion of athletic competitions at many levels up to the great Panhellenic games. Panhellenic victories brought prestige to the cities, who offered their victors considerable honours and material rewards. This chapter seeks to identify diverse connections, in different cities, between athletic training and competition and the regulation of membership in these developing communities. It suggests that in some places (Sparta, Cretan cities) athletic performance was used as part of complex socialization procedures and as a qualification for community membership via small-scale commensality associations. At Athens, athletic prowess was encouraged but not imposed, and citizenship was probably opened, through pseudo-kinship subgroups, to athletes along with other skilled immigrants; comparable practices may be suspected in other athletically ambitious cities (Corinth, Argos, and Aegina). In wealthy cities in Sicily and South Italy, desperate for Panhellenic success, athletic achievement inspired the positive recruitment of new citizens.

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Halstead, Paul, and Valasia Isaakidou. Sheep, sacrifices, and symbols. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.8.

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Images, texts, and bones shed light on the place of animals in the later Bronze Age societies of southern Greece. Iconography offers an idealized vision of encounters with dangerous, exotic, and mythical beasts, of travel in elaborate horse-drawn chariots, and of ceremonial slaughter of bulls. Reality, even for the elite and as revealed by textual and faunal evidence, was more mundane: killing and consumption of sheep, goats, and pigs more than lions, deer, and bulls; and dependence, to finance a palatial lifestyle, on draught oxen for grain production and wool-sheep for exchangeable prestige textiles. Linear B texts describe aspects of animal management of interest to the Mycenaean palaces, while faunal data make clear how restricted were these interests. Faunal and ceramic data highlight the importance of commensality throughout the Neolithic and Bronze Age, and the shift from overtly egalitarian gatherings in the Neolithic to ostentatiously inegalitarian in the Bronze Age.

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Keune, Jon. Shared Devotion, Shared Food. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197574836.001.0001.

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This book is about a deceptively simple question: when Hindu devotional or bhakti traditions welcomed marginalized people—women, low castes, and Dalits—were they promoting social equality? This is the modern formulation of the bhakti-caste question. It is what Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar had in mind when he concluded that the saints promoted spiritual equality but did not transform society. While taking Ambedkar’s judgment seriously, when viewed in the context of intellectual history and social practice, the bhakti-caste question is more complex. This book dives deeply into Marathi sources to explore how one tradition in western India worked out the relationship between bhakti and caste on its own terms. Food and eating together were central to this. As stories about saints and food changed while moving across manuscripts, theatrical plays, and films, the bhakti-caste relationship went from being a strategically ambiguous riddle to a question that expected—and received—answers. Shared Devotion, Shared Food demonstrates the value of critical commensality to understand how people carefully negotiate their ethical ideals with social practices. Food’s capacity to symbolize many things made it made an ideal site for debating bhakti’s implications about caste differences. In the Vārkarī tradition, strategically deployed ambiguity and the resonating of stories across media over time developed an ideology of inclusive difference—not social equality in the modern sense, but an alternative holistic view of society.

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Duplouy, Alain, and Roger W. Brock, eds. Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198817192.001.0001.

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Citizenship is a major feature of contemporary national and international politics. It is also a legacy of ancient Greece. The concept of membership of a community appeared in Greece some three millennia ago as a participation in the social and political life of small-scale communities, but only towards the end of the fourth century BC did Aristotle offer the first explicit statement about it. Though long accepted, the Aristotelian definition remains deeply rooted in the philosophical and political thought of the classical period, but it probably fails to account accurately for the previous centuries or the dynamics of the emergent cities. Focusing on archaic Greece, this collective enquiry, bringing together renowned international scholars, aims at exploring new routes to archaic citizenship, exemplifying the living diversity of approaches to archaic Greece and to the Greek city. If the Aristotelian model has long been applied to all Greek cities regardless of chronological issues, historians are now challenging Aristotle’s theoretical definition and are looking for other ways of conceiving citizenship and community, setting the stage for a new image of archaic cities, which are no longer to be considered as primitive or incomplete classical poleis. Driven by this same objective, the essays collected here have not, however, been tailored to endorse any specific view. Each contributor brings his or her own national background and approaches to archaic citizenship through specific fields of enquiry (law, descent, cults, military obligations, associations, civic subdivisions, athletics, commensality, behaviours, etc.), often venturing off the beaten track.

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Dawson, Susan. Other bacterial diseasesStaphylococcal zoonoses. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0026.

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Staphylococcal species are common commensals of the skin and mucous membranes of humans and animals but only in very recent years has zoonotic infections been recognised. They can also be associated with infection and disease, especially coagulase positive organisms. Staphylococcus aureus is relatively frequently carried by humans in the nasal passages and is a cause of infections in people including bacteraemias in hospitalised patients. More recently some strains of Staphylococcus aureus have acquired a resistance gene (mecA) which renders them resistant to meticillin (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA). MRSA isolates are of major importance in healthcare situations as well as increasingly in the community. Animals can also be carriers of Staphylococcus aureus although less frequently than humans and MRSA can be carried or infect several different host species. For companion animals such as dogs and cats, the most frequently isolated MRSA strains are similar to the common local human healthcare strains; thus for the UK, EMRSA-15 and -16. This suggests a reverse zoonosis with spill over from the human population into their companion animals. In horses the situation is different, with some horses carrying or infected with human epidemic strains but others infected with strains less frequently seen in people. For food-producing animals the picture is different again with a particular strain, ST398, which appears to circulate endemically in animal populations, such as pigs, and can spill over into the human population where it can cause carriage as well as infection and disease. The transmission appears to be by direct contact with animals rather than through the food-chain.Where risk factors for infection with MRSA have been studied in animals they appear similar to some of the risks for human infection. Therefore, for control of MRSA in animals measures such as improved hygiene and good antibacterial stewardship are important.

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