Listeria clever at finding its way into bloodstream, causing sickness

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 15:50 in Health & Medicine

Pathogenic listeria tricks intestinal cells into helping it pass through those cells to make people ill, and, if that doesn't work, the bacteria simply goes around the cells, according to a Purdue University study.

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