Ain\'t nature wonderful (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Friday, September 24, 2010, 00:32 (5174 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

An explanation how salmonella attack the gut and grow without using oxygen, It is a bastardized version of symbiosos, with only one partner benefiting:-"[It's] kind of neat trick," Bäumler said. "Salmonella has these virulence factors to trigger inflammation, and this inflammation is necessary to generate tetrathionate, and tetrathionate is necessary to outgrow [the other bacteria]." -
Read more: Immune response feeds parasite - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences: -http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/57695/


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