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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Main Authors: Gabriel M. F. Almeida, Elina Laanto, Roghaieh Ashrafi, Lotta-Riina Sundberg
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/4d557f0fd5d64bf78f54af0e4d6dcdfd
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