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Article: Researchers Discover Infectious Mechanism Common To Many Bacteria.
- Article from:
- Drug Week
- Article date:
- November 23, 2001
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2001 NOV 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists at Yale School of Medicine have described the means by which many common bacteria that cause potentially fatal diseases - such as food poisoning, typhoid fever, plague and dysentery - infect other cells, raising hopes for the development of new treatments for the diseases.
In a paper published in the November 1, 2001, issue of Nature, Jorge Galan, the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbiology and chair of the Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, and C. Erec Stebbins, a postdoctoral fellow in his laboratory, report finding how the type III secretion system in Salmonella, the cause of food poisoning and typhoid ...