Molecular players involved in systemic and acute infections are relatively easy to pinpoint, whereas bacterial resilience during chronic infections remains less well understood. Pseudomonas aeruginosa encodes a quorum-regulated virulence factor, TesG, that promotes chronic lung infection by suppressing host inflammatory responses.
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Filloux, A., Davies, J.C. Chronic infection by controlling inflammation. Nat Microbiol 4, 378–379 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0397-6
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