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Annihilating host defense

Nature Medicine volume 7, pages 1285–1286 (2001)Cite this article

Over time, bacteria have evolved mechanisms to enable them to outwit the efforts of their host to destroy them. New studies have uncovered a hitherto unknown mechanism of defense used by one of the commonest bacteria to infect humans, and a major pathogen, group A Streptococcus (pages 1298–1305)

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Figure 1: Activation of the classical pathway by antibody.

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