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.