Friday, 30 May 2014

Meningitis Bacteria Change Key Protein Shape to Escape Detection

Bacterial meningitis seems to crop up out of nowhere in the US every once in a while. Part of the disease's danger is the ability of the bacteria to evade the body's immune system, but scientists are now figuring out how the pathogen hides in plain sight. Their findings, which could help defeat these bacteria and others like it, appear in the iJournal of the American Chemical Society/i. Linda Columbus and colleagues explain that the bacteria iNeisseria meningitidis/i, ...

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