Bacterial pathogens: A spoonful of sugar could be the medicine.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Pili are filamentous bacterial structures that promote adhesion to host cells. It emerges that a small molecule that inhibits this adhesion can prevent colonization of the mouse gut by a pathogenic bacterium.