Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9262889 Current Opinion in Immunology 2005 4 Pages PDF
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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