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Microbial pathogenesis: new niches for salmonella
J H Brumell1, A J Perrin, D L Goosney
1Biotechnology Laboratory and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, V6T-1Z3, Vancouver, Canada.
Current Biology : CB
|January 16, 2002
Abstract:
Salmonella occupies a vacuolar compartment inside cells of its host. Recent studies have shown that the fate of this vacuole is different in various cell types, and that the outcome of colonization is determined by both the infecting bacterium and defense mechanisms of the host cell.