Legionnaire Microbe's Tricks Discovered

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 06/19/2008 - 21:30

Researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires' disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients.

In order to survive, the gram-negative bacteria use genes that have evolved in tandem with ones in their hosts to essentially disarm immune system cells trying to kill them, the scientists report in the journal Science.


 

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