Microbes can have the following relationships with their hosts: 1. Parasitism: the microbe benefits at the expense of the host. 2.Mutulaism: both microbe and the host benefit. 3. Commensalism: one of the organism benefits while the other neither experience benefit or harm. 4.Antagonism: one of the organism benefits at he expense of the other 5. Synergism: is a special type of relationship among organisms in which both of them work together, it may be beneficial and it may be harmful.
