Mechanisms of bacillary dysentery: lessons learnt from infant rabbits
The bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri causes more than 250 million cases of bacillary dysentery (blood in stool) every year across the world. This human-specific disease is characterized by profuse bloody diarrhea, dramatic ulceration of the colonic epithelium and immune cell infiltration of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Gut Microbes |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2019.1667726 |