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Volume 33, number 13
November 20, 2009

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Recent Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions from Dictyostelium 

Margaret Clarke 

Program in Genetic Models of Disease, Oklahoma Medical Research 
Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK 73104


Cell. Microbiol., in press

To protect themselves from predation by amoebae and protozoa in the natural 
environment, some bacteria evolved means of escaping killing.  The same 
mechanisms allow survival in mammalian phagocytes, producing opportunistic 
human pathogens.  The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a powerful 
system for analysis of conserved host-pathogen interactions.  This report 
reviews recent insights gained for several bacterial pathogens using Dictyostelium 
as host. 


Submitted by Margaret Clarke  [clarkem@omrf.ouhsc.edu]
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