Inflammation boosts bacteriophage transfer between Salmonella spp.

The parasite of my parasite is my friend? Virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria can be swapped by means of bacterial viruses called phages. In turn, the pathogenic bacteria are under attack by the hosts' immune responses. Diard et al. discovered that SopEϕ, a phage parasite of pathogenic Salmonel... View More