Microbe Magazine

Cover ImageCover: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of Listeria monocytogenes, a foodborne pathogen. Researchers find that L. monocytogenes disrupts membrane tension in host cells in order to spread from cell to cell in a process so far unique among bacterial pathogens (see p. 7). (Magnification, ×206,000; image © Dr. Gary Gaugler/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
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Cover ImageCover: Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of Listeria monocytogenes, a foodborne pathogen. Researchers find that L. monocytogenes disrupts membrane tension in host cells in order to spread from cell to cell in a process so far unique among bacterial pathogens (see p. 7). (Magnification, ×206,000; image © Dr. Gary Gaugler/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
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