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How Bacteria Grow Their Surface Pili

Posted on May 16, 2008

As any medical student knows, bacterial pili play a pretty important role in the pathogenesis of bacterial species. Understanding how the pili are formed might open a whole range of clinical strategies to combat the infectious nature in a variety of bacterial species.Brookhaven National Laboratory reports about the latest research coming out of the lab:Using two sophisticated imaging techniques, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, University College London, and Washington University School of Medicine have ca...

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