New mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis discovered

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have identified a new mechanism of bacterial pathogenesis. Bacteria that cause chronic infections have an amazing but yet poorly known ability to subvert immune response, live and produce offspring, enter and wake up from a dormant phase to cause, in some instances, deadly complications.

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