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  • Microbiology and Immunology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Cell Biology

Background:

  • Bacterial pathogens establish intracellular niches within host tissues, leading to persistent infections, reinfections, and antibiotic resistance.
  • Studying these early invasion events in vivo is challenging but crucial for understanding disease progression and clinical outcomes.
  • Host-pathogen interactions involve complex host immunity, bacterial virulence, and metabolic exchanges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To discuss Salmonella interactions with host macrophages during early infection stages.
  • To highlight the critical role of these interactions in determining infection outcomes.
  • To explore models and single-cell approaches for analyzing host-pathogen dynamics in vivo.

Main Methods:

  • Review and discussion of existing models for studying host-pathogen interactions.
  • Emphasis on single-cell resolution techniques for in vivo analysis.
  • Analysis of host-pathogen landscape and intracellular niche establishment.

Main Results:

  • Early host-pathogen interactions dictate the establishment of protected intracellular niches.
  • Heterogeneity in host immunity and bacterial virulence significantly impacts infection dynamics.
  • Single-cell approaches reveal critical events at infection bottlenecks.

Conclusions:

  • Understanding early intracellular bacterial invasion and host-pathogen dynamics is essential for controlling infections.
  • In vivo single-cell analysis provides a global view of infection establishment and progression.
  • Improved knowledge of these cellular interactions can predict disease trajectory from inoculation to symptoms.