These are harmful bacteria that cause strep infections, which are infections that kill over 500,000 people each year. Why are they so successful in infecting the body? It is because they are masters of disguise. To hide from the immune system, they blanket their surfaces with molecules that resemble our own. David Gonzalez, a biochemist and microbiologist at the University of California, San Diego, state that this technique effectively provides the pathogens “cloaks of invisibility.”
...To avoid being snuffed out by the immune system, the bacteria that cause strep throat tear apart red blood cells and then dress themselves in the debris…
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I guess we could say that these pathogens can be comparable to ninjas. What do you think?
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