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Interaction between innate immune cells and a bacterial type III secretion system in mutualistic and pathogenic associations.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 May 2007
Silver Adam C, Kikuchi Yoshitomo, Fadl Amin A, Sha Jian, Chopra Ashok K, Graf Joerg
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Animals house a community of bacterial symbionts in their digestive tracts that contribute to their well being. The medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, has a remarkably simple gut population carrying two extracellular microbes in the crop where the ingested blood is stored. This simplicity renders it attractive for studying colonization factors. Aeromonas veronii, one of the leech symbionts, can be genetically...
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