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  • Team discovers how bacteria exploit a chink in the body’s armor

    Jan 19, 2017 2:30 pm by Steph AdamsResearch
    microbiology professor Thomas Kehl-Fie, graduate student Yuritzi Garcia and their colleagues made a key discovery about how a potentially dangerous pathogen defeats the human immune system. Photo by Steph Adams

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    • microbiology professor Thomas Kehl-Fie, graduate student Yuritzi Garcia and their colleagues made a key discovery about how a potentially dangerous pathogen defeats the human immune system. Photo by Steph Adams

    Scientists have discovered a new type of bacterial enzyme that can blunt the body’s key weapons in its fight against infection.