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Abstract
To protect themselves from predation by amoebae and protozoa in the natural environment, some bacteria evolved means of escaping killing. The same mechanisms allow survival in mammalian phagocytes, producing opportunistic human pathogens. The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a powerful system for analysis of conserved host-pathogen interactions. This report reviews recent insights gained for several bacterial pathogens using Dictyostelium as host.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19919566 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01413.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Microbiol ISSN: 1462-5814 Impact factor: 3.715