Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9262889 | Current Opinion in Immunology | 2005 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The past decade has witnessed tremendous growth in two related fields: innate immunity and microbial pathogenesis. Many pathogens have evolved mechanisms to infect their hosts in the face of a fully functional innate immune system, and there are numerous examples by which pathogens avoid recognition and/or suppress inflammation. In this review, I suggest that pathogens not only survive the innate immune response, but use it to promote their pathogenesis.
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Daniel A Portnoy,