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Mann award winner illuminates infectious diseases
Over that same time, Legionella – the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease – has developed defenses against humans’ white blood cells, known as the “defenders of the lungs.” “Immune cells in human lungs happen to act a lot like amoeba...
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