Fighting life-threatening bacteria without antibiotics
Tuesday, July 19, 2016 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Patients suffering from liver cirrhosis often die of life-threatening bacterial infections. In these patients the immune cells are unable to eliminate the bacterial infections. Scientist at the University of Bonn and TU Munich have now discovered that type I IFN released by immune cells due to increased migration of gut bacteria into the cirrhotic liver […]