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Microbial killing: hold the bleach and pass the salt!

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The current paradigm is that reactive oxygen species produced by leukocytes directly kill bacteria. Data in a recent Nature article belie that simplicity.

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Figure 1: A fresh look at phagocytic killing.

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Bokoch, G. Microbial killing: hold the bleach and pass the salt!. Nat Immunol 3, 340–342 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0402-340

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