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🦠 #Pneumococci - the main cause of #pneumonia - damage the lungs in a different way than previously thought. As researchers from #CharitéBerlin have now shown, the bacteria acidify their environment and thus disintegrate the tissue barrier. The findings may open up new therapeutic approaches.
#medicine #science #research #ScienceMastodon #MedMastodon #CharitéMicrobiology
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A group of divergent #bacterial #pathogens, including #pneumococci, all share a small highly conserved #protein sequence, which is both presented and recognized by human T cells in a conserved population-wide manner.
#Tcell #Microbiology #Biology #Medical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/mcb04262301.html