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Abstract
Intestinal M cells, the specialised antigen-sampling cells of the mucosal immune system, are exploited by Salmonella and other pathogens as a route of invasion. Salmonella entry into M cells and colonisation of Peyer's patches involve mechanisms critical for infection of cultured cells as well as factors not accurately modelled in vitro.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11755406 DOI: 10.1016/s1286-4579(01)01478-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Microbes Infect ISSN: 1286-4579 Impact factor: 2.700