Stress signals link pre-existing sickness with susceptibility to bacterial infection

Monday, July 27, 2009 - 23:49 in Health & Medicine

Mitochondrial diseases disrupt the power generating machinery within cells and increase a person's susceptibility to bacterial infection, particularly in the lungs or respiratory tract.

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