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Innate immunity cues virulence

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Salmonella intestinal pathogens employ a clever trick. They use the immune response that their host triggers to destroy them to enhance the expression of genes that mediate the pathogens' virulence.

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Figure 1: Salmonella and its effect on macrophages.

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  1. Michelle M. C. Buckner and B. Brett Finlay are in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and at the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada.,

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Buckner, M., Finlay, B. Innate immunity cues virulence. Nature 472, 179–180 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/472179a

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