How Salmonella Escapes Immune Defenses

Salmonella are wily and obnoxious bacterial invaders–escape artists capable of evading multiple immune responses and causing a harsh and debilitating intestinal infection.Researchers have come closer to understanding how these bacteria manage to thwart two major categories of immune defenses at once and set up shop in a host organism. New results are reported in the April 2008 issue of the journal Cell Host & Microbe.

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Filed under: Biology on April 17th, 2008