Bacteriophage Adherence to Mucus Mediates Preventive Protection against Pathogenic Bacteria
ABSTRACT Metazoans were proposed to host bacteriophages on their mucosal surfaces in a symbiotic relationship, where phages provide an external immunity against bacterial infections and the metazoans provide phages a medium for interacting with bacteria. However, scarce empirical evidence and model...
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American Society for Microbiology
2019
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/4d557f0fd5d64bf78f54af0e4d6dcdfd |
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