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