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Innate Immune Response to Infectious Biofilms

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The term “innate immunity” was first promoted by Ilya Metchnikoff to describe the ability of phagocytes to protect the host from infection. For his achievements in innate immunity, Metchnikoff together with Paul Ehrlich, the father of adaptive immunity, were awarded the Nobel prize in 1908. This event made it official: immunology had become an academic discipline in its own right.

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Jensen, P.Ø., Moser, C. (2011). Innate Immune Response to Infectious Biofilms. In: Bjarnsholt, T., Jensen, P., Moser, C., Høiby, N. (eds) Biofilm Infections. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6084-9_11

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