{"id":6378,"date":"2018-10-23T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2018-11-24T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:21:38","slug":"how-salmonella-tricks-the-human-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-salmonella-tricks-the-human-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"How Salmonella tricks the human immune system<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celrep.2018.09.078\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cell Reports<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0October 23, 2018 11:00 EDT<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2018-10\/mu-ctu101818.php\" target=\"_blank\">News release <\/a>from McMaster University)<br \/>\nBy comparing two Salmonella\u00a0strains \u2013 one that causes disease in humans and the other in reptiles \u2013 researchers discovered another method bacteria use to evade the human immune system and promote infection. Although the two bacteria share most of their genes, researchers found that disease-causing S. Typhimurium turns off the threadlike swimming structures on its surface once it invades a human host cell. This renders the bacteria difficult for the host immune system to detect and respond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author: <\/strong>Brian Coombes, McMaster University &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:coombes@mcmaster.ca\" target=\"_blank\">coombes@mcmaster.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell Reports Published\u00a0October 23, 2018 11:00 EDT (News release from McMaster University) By comparing two Salmonella\u00a0strains \u2013 one that causes disease in humans and the other in reptiles \u2013 researchers discovered another method bacteria use to evade the human immune system and promote infection. Although the two bacteria share most of their genes, researchers found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,3259,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-heads-up","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1ES","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6397,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions\/6397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}