How Yersinia spreads within infected organs

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts have identified how one type of bacteria, Yersinia, immobilizes the immune system in order to grow in the organs of mice. To do so, the researchers extended the use of a technique and suggest that it could be used to study other bacteria that use the same or similar means of infection. The study is published in Cell Host & Microbe. Led by microbiologist Joan Mecsas, the research team studied a specific member of a family of effector proteins known as Yops...
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