Scientists have revealed yet another way in which the bacterium that causes anthrax disarms the immune system.
The microbe, Bacillus anthracis, produces a molecular complex that’s called lethal toxin known to interrupt a cascade of signals inside macrophages, the immune cells that envelop and destroy bacteria (SN: 5/9/98, p.
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