Traditionally, bacterial toxins have been seen as killers of target cells. But is there more than meets the eye? Umeå University Professor Teresa Frisan and her team have discovered that toxin-host interactions are more complex and that bacterial toxins can act as modulators of the host immune response to avoid bacteria detection and long-term infection. The study has been published in the journal Cell Reports.
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