Gut instinct: Salmonella bacteria's molecular tactics to cause illness

Friday, December 19, 2008 - 16:42 in Health & Medicine

Hundreds of trillions of bacteria make their home in the vertebrate gut. Though many of these microbes perform helpful duties for their host, others—the pathogens—are unwelcome visitors, causing disease.

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