Sugar turns bacteria sweet: a peace offering in the gut

• Ken Cadwell ^[1]
  1. [1] New York University

     New York University

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, Vol. 175, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 36-37
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Following an infection, a subset of individuals can remain disease free despite harboring a pathogen for a prolonged period. In this issue of Cell, Sanchez et al. demonstrate that a metabolically favorable host response can drive an otherwise lethal bacterial pathogen to abandon virulence and become a commensal microorganism.