Complementary Tolls in the periodontium: how periodontal bacteria modify complement and Toll-like receptor responses to prevail in the host

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The complement and the Toll-like receptors are rapidly activatable systems which, in concert, provide first-line innate defense against infection and act as mediators between the innate and the adaptive immune response. The ability of periodontal bacteria to persist and establish chronic infections in the periodontium suggests that they may have evolved strategies to evade, disarm, or subvert these defense...

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