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Swimming motility of a gut bacterial symbiont promotes resistance to intestinal expulsion and enhances inflammation.
PLoS biology - 1 Mar 2020
Wiles Travis J, Schlomann Brandon H, Wall Elena S, Betancourt Reina, Parthasarathy Raghuveer, Guillemin Karen
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Some of the densest microbial ecosystems in nature thrive within the intestines of humans and other animals. To protect mucosal tissues and maintain immune tolerance, animal hosts actively sequester bacteria within the intestinal lumen. In response, numerous bacterial pathogens and pathobionts have evolved strategies to subvert spatial restrictions, thereby undermining immune homeostasis. However, in many cases,...
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