Bacterial survival strategy: Splitting into virulent and non-virulent subtypes
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have discovered a long-term epigenetic memory switch that controls different modes of bacterial virulence, a bacterial survival strategy for outsmarting the human immune response. The study sheds new light on bacterial virulence strategies, resulting in increased disease severity, higher infection persistence, and improved host-to-host spreading.