New research explains why a common bacterium can produce severe illness

Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 12:02 in Health & Medicine

How can the same infection result in dramatically different levels of illness in two different people? A new study identifies two conditions—a genetic immunodeficiency and delayed acquired immunity—that explain why a patient developed a life-threatening disease in response to a common strain of bacterium. More »

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