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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-12-01
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| Series: | mBio |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01984-19 |