A spoonful of sugar could be the medicine

Hea-Jin Jung and Eric G. Pamer ()
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Hea-Jin Jung: Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Eric G. Pamer: Inflammation and Cancer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Nature, 2017, vol. 546, issue 7659, 479-480

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. See Letter p.528

Date: 2017
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